Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL NOW, AND MASSACHUSETTS WROTE IT IN BIG LETTERS FOR ALL THE BACKROOM BOYS TO READ AT THE CONVENTION. IF THEY FAIL TO READ IT AND SPIKE IKE, NO AMOUNT OF SOPHISTRY AND HAIR-SPLITTING OR TALK ABOUT PLATFORMS AND POLICIES WILL ERASE THE FACT THAT THE MAJORITY HAVE SPOKEN LOUDLY AND WITH...
...conference, the U.S. delegation, including Harvard Professor Zechariah Chaffee, Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence Journal & Bulletin, and the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin ("Spike") Canham, won enough supporters to get their "Newsgathering Convention" tentatively approved. But to do so, they had to bargain. Among the 55 countries attending, many wanted a clause giving a nation the right to demand corrections of erroneous stories. Unwisely, the U.S. agreed. One government might send a "correction" to another and it would be required to pass along the correction to its press, though the newspapers could decide for themselves whether...
...first, quite naturally, was his varsity debut in the spring of 1937. "This was one of my most crucial races," he said, "because I had a selling job to do. I took over when there were five returning seniors on the crew, plus Spike Chace, a junior, who had stroked the previous year. Chace had terrific power, but had lost every race but the Yale race the year before. And the reason was that the crew rowed the traditional high stroke. My job was to convince Chace and the seniors that a low stroke was the best. As a green...
...famous old sub name. Long before Robert Fulton puffed up the Hudson in his steamboat in 1807, he was experimenting with a long, platter-shaped submarine named Nautilus.* Jules Verne used the name for the spike-nosed boat commanded by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Over the years, two U.S. Navy subs have been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns...
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Spike Jones; Victor). One of 30 current recordings of the song which was No. i on the small-fry hit parade last year. Jones packs away his customary fireworks, turns out a good disc for kids...