Word: spike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North's persistence in declaring that "I was authorized to do everything that I did" creates obvious questions for Poindexter, who will follow him to the witness table. Did Poindexter just spike all diversion memos and let North proceed on his own? Poindexter's public testimony, predicts a congressional source who has heard his private interviews, will be "explosive...
...Spike Owen and Dave Henderson will remember 1986 for a long time. After playing in the lonely confines of the Seattle Kingdome for the lowly Mariners, Owen and Henderson didn't complain when they were traded to the Red Sox. But a large number of major leaguers have spent their entire careers watching the Fall Classic in their living rooms. Who leads al active players for most regular-season contests played without ever participating in the World Series...
When independent filmmakers team up with major studios, the drawbacks of working for a big company suddenly hit home. Director Spike Lee, whose 1986 picture She's Gotta Have It earned $7 million on a $200,000 budget, recently caught flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary that is distributing his current $6 million movie. Reason: Lee's lead character was named Slice, which happens to be a brand of soft drink produced by rival Pepsi-Cola. The director reluctantly changed the character's name...
...armed with automatic weapons came nosing around the rhino refuge at Lewa Downs. "But we put out the message that if they came in, a few of them would have to die along with us," says Anna Merz. Under the driver's seat in her car, she carries a spike-headed club. She is not licensed to carry a gun, but she employs guards with old Enfield rifles to patrol her fenced-in 7,500-acre refuge, where approximately 16 rhinos live...
Harvard's Ian Dyer--whose powerful slams kept Harvard in the match all night--ended an exhausting and long rally with another spike into Chief territory, thus sealing the 15-13 victory...