Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when you can find it. Some of the boys used to swipe quarts of milk and then go to the gas station to beg gasoline for a spike. Milk isn't left on doorsteps any more. It costs 20? a quart and the jerks at the gas stations ain't very friendly any more...
...Spike" Sigler, leading the Jumbo attack, was the game's high scorer with six goals. He scored three times on zone plays and three times on sprints dodging by the Crimson defencemen...
...editors chuckled at this smooth doubletalk. Cracked Chairman Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Newspapermen the world over are very much alike." Ehrenburg shot him a grateful grin, while the interpreter hastened to finish translating Ehrenburg's previous remarks: "We know that when the Germans were on the outskirts of the city, Stalin stayed in Moscow. Stalin is dear to our hearts. . . ." Suggested Canham: would the visitors like to ask a few questions for a change? Gracefully, Ilya Ehrenburg declined...
Died. Edward ("Spike") Howard, 68, world's champion blood donor (1,100-odd pints); reportedly of a blood clot; in Philadelphia. A onetime (1922) "Strongest Man in the World," 240-lb. Spike bragged that his blood flowed in the veins of the best families (he gave some to the late President Calvin Coolidge's father, the ex-wife of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor George Earle), but was proudest that he had never sold a drop...
Seeking to spike rumors that the American Veterans' Committee is an organization composed primarily of "East Coast college intellectuals," Charles G. Bolte, AVC head and author of "The New Veteran," stated in Cambridge AVC headquarters on Saturday that his organization cut across all cultural, social, geographical, and economic lines in its membership...