Word: spiked
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...Canaveral. Hitchhiking atop a specially adapted Boeing 747, the new or biter passed low over the reviewing stand at California's Edwards Air Force Base while a military band played God Bless America. Reagan likened the conclusion of the shuttle test program to the driving of the golden spike that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad...
...through late in the final game to lead a come-from-behind effort Springfield held a 12-10 lead and threatened to tie the match at two games apiece. Tanaka tallied some Harvard points with his serve, and with the game deadlocked at 13, the sophomore rejected a Springfield spike to set up the Harvard victory...
Harvard's defensive hustle set up the offense. Back-row players got the ball to the setters, and the defense never gave up on a ball. Even when the Crimson led by 10 in the second game, the players continued to dive at every spike...
Midway through the first game. Harvard coach Mike Palm moved his blockers to the inside. New Jersey continued to try to force the ball through the middle, and Harvard blockers rejected spike after spike...
DIED. Erwin ("Spike") Canham, 77, scholarly editor emeritus of the Christian Science Monitor; after abdominal surgery; in Agana, Guam. Under Canham's direction, the Monitor was known for incisive international coverage and interpretive news writing. A farm boy who made it to Oxford, he joined the Monitor in 1925 and was named editor in chief in 1964. Canham served in a variety of civic positions, but still found time to teach Christian Science Sunday school class. After retiring from the Monitor in 1974, he was named resident commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands...