Word: spike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what has Jimmy Carter done lately for his mentor? Not much. As one of his first major acts, he moved to spike the admiral's guns by slashing from the Navy's proposed budget $733.3 million -to be used to convert the nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach into an antimissile defense ship and to begin building a nuclear strike cruiser and a fifth nuclear aircraft carrier. The President apparently agreed with other Navy brass that money for new surface ships would be better spent on less costly oil-fired craft, such as frigates. This would leave Rickover with...
...limbered up his legs-already toughened by twice-weekly circuits of a 4½-mile-long cross-country ski trail-with 100 or so turns of a jump rope. Finally he took to the court for several brisk sets of tennis. Still, though he is as hard as a spike at 6 ft., 170 Ibs., the champ was not satisfied. "My return of serve is out the window, and I'm not in shape," he complained. "I need to lose six or seven pounds this month to get ready for the outdoor season...
...buffoonish Little Richard with six inches--straight up--of hari, "the handsomest man in rock and roll"; Carole King more than a decade ago, starched, prim, and complete with bouffant hair-do; and three grinning Marvelettes ("you can call me up and have a date, any old time"), spike-heeled and poured into satin and sequin sheaths--to mention just a few. The pictures are abundant, and cliched though it may sound, they capture the excitement, the innocence and the defiance of so much early rock with greater clarity than most writers could ever hope to achieve...
...rotary hoe is (a) a subcommittee of the Rotary International, (b) a folk dance in a "hoe down," (c) a type of spike-tooth harrow, (d) a Cultipacker used in no-till agriculture, (e) a farm implement used to loosen soil after planting...
Producers also spike sales by making "dubs" of their hit releases. Designed for dancing, dubs consist solely of the five guitar-drum-bass rhythm tracks. Kingston's 70 discotheques crave "greatest hits" album dubs, but since they cost twice the normal amount, only the capital's top dozen discos can afford them...