Word: spike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire line. A battle of flagpoles once went on for weeks as each side tried to have its flag stand higher in the meeting room. They finally agreed that only miniature flagpoles, both of precisely equal size, would be placed on the table, but North Korea has put a spike point atop its tiny table pole to gain a minute one-inch height advantage. Language across the table, which is predictably tough, reached a peak last year when the senior member on the U.N. side, U.S. Major General Richard Ciccolella, violated past practice and started addressing his opposite number directly...
...After a firefight, you find one American invader wounded by a spike trap, two vicious henchmen blown up by a grenade booby trap and five puppet soldiers shattered by a mine. How many dead and wounded are there...
Married. Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, 64, editor of the Christian Science Monitor from 1945 to 1964 and its present editor in chief; and Patience Mary Daltry, 40, his British-born assistant book editor; he for the second time (his wife of 37 years died last August), she for the first; in Boston...
...responsible for this repertory of parody is Peter Schickele, a chubby, flop-haired imp of 32, who has done for classical music what Spike Jones did for pop. Since Schickele started his P.D.Q. Bach concerts in New York City three years ago, the baroque revival has never been the same. What makes his satire so devastating is that even his broadest buffoonery is backed by thorough knowledge and fine musicianship; he is an experienced "serious" composer who took a degree at Juilliard and studied with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud...
Looking at the situation, the U.S. decided that the only way to defend Khe Sanh was by a massive application of airpower. At Tan Son Nhut airport outside Saigon, General William W. ("Spike") Momyer set up a special command whose sole mission was to orchestrate an aerial operation around Khe Sanh. Working over a sandbox model of the Khe Sanh area, two of the U.S. Army's most gifted tacticians-General Creighton Abrams and Lieut. General William B. Rosson-figured out the most logical places for Giap to concentrate men and supplies, then designated those areas as prime targets...