Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Archacologists were also interested to see a square hand-wrought spike over two feet long, which was used to hold up the gutter. All the nails found in the old boards were of the square hand forged variety. The boards were excellently preserved, in spite of 200 years of service in a damp climate...
...automobile, carrying four men in the Free State army uniform and one machine gun, dashed into Queenstown about nightfall and stopped at a pier where some Britsh soldiers from Spike Island had just landed. The gun was trained on the Tommies, fire was opened. One soldier was killed, two women (bystanders) and 28 soldiers were wounded-four so seriously that they are not expected to recover. The car then left the pier, drove along the high-road past the Queenstown Yacht Club where the assassins trained the gun on the British destroyer Scythe. They fired but inflicted no casualties...
...arara, a flat flounder-like fish of northern Brazil, has its tail equipped with a sharp spike containing a kind of poison. When the fish senses danger it raises the spike perpendicularly. Natives walking in the shallow waters of the region have been pierced, poisoned to death by the weapon...
Alaska's golden spike...
...Scene 1. 1. Ella, Ella, Opening Chorus 2. Blue Blood Blues, "Efficiency" Jones 3. What Sort of a Hero, Ella 4. Let Me Have You Near Me, "Stuffy" Danforth 5. Someone to Cuddle, Ella and "Efficiency" 6. Your Knight, "Stuffy" and Ella Scene 2. 7. Maid for Me, "Spike" Maloney 8. He'll Wait, Ella 9. Say, You Couldn't Hold Me Back, "Stuffy" ACT II. Scene 1. 10. Sympathetic Strike, Opening Chorus 11. Just a Bit of Jazz, "Efficiency" 12. All That's Golden Does Not Glitter, "Stuffy" and "Spike" 13. Land of Pearls, Ella 14. Back to Earth...