Word: spike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected battle between Mark Mullin and Spike Paranya of Wesleyan in the mile could be the highlight of the IC4A meet at Randalls Island today and tomorrow. The Crimson's Stan Doten should take first in the hammer throw, as the varsity bids for a high finish in the Eastern championships...
...screams coming from the visitors' gallery. As Stevenson stopped and stared, some 60 Negroes burst into the gallery, scrambled down the aisle shouting "Lumumba!'' flailed wildly at the astonished guards. One woman, shrieking like a banshee, laid out a cop with a skull blow from her spike-heel shoe. It took 15 minutes to drag the screaming, kicking demonstrators outside, where they continued their demonstration on the sidewalk. Some may have been Communist, but most were merely excited members of Manhattan Negro factions. But the Communists lost no time in exploiting them; Party Secretary Ben Davis turned...
...Rock Creek Park, the police cavalry, worried lest its horses should react violently to the roar of the parade and crowds, spent hours conditioning the mounts by feeding them heavy doses of Spike Jones recordings over loudspeakers. As a result, by Inauguration Day the horses were immune to noise, but the cops were nervous wrecks. Parade officials put on a small-scale dry run down Pennsylvania Avenue, pronounced everything satisfactory. They arranged for a helicopter to hover over the parade and radio traffic information to an Army-run command post. There, in a van off Pennsylvania Avenue, a control center...
Since most users agree that the stuff is vile-tasting ("It's glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato...
Percussive Vaudeville (Harry Breuer and Orchestra; Audio Fidelity). A sentimental treatment of Gay Nineties songs is mixed with Spike Jonesian horn and whistle exclamations. The "separation of sound" here is greater than that between the far ends of a vaudeville pit. and the effect, while startling, ultimately cancels out the melody...