Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think of nothing but the savagery that occurred at the New Mexico State Penitentiary [Feb. 18], less than ten miles from my home. Good Lord, no human being deserves to have limbs severed by a blow torch or a steel spike driven from one ear to another, no matter what crime brought him to prison...
...some of the captives, the wait was not that long. Preliminary negotiations led to the release of 13 hostages, including the wounded Paraguayan charge d'affaires Rafael Vélez Pareja and ten women. Looking pale and distraught, some of them clad in elegant spike heels and furs, the women were whisked away from the scene in government cars. Also removed was the body of a 19-year-old guerrilla shot by Asencio's bodyguard during the seizure. He was still wearing his green sweatsuit, a black kerchief covering his face...
...refrigerator; the other specimen will be analyzed immediately. The urine will be placed in the gas chromatograph, which separates out constituent elements one by one. For example, amphetamines come out in three minutes, narcotics and steroids in about 20 minutes. Their presence is signaled by a "spike" in a pengraph tracing made by the machine. No spike, no drugs...
P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass (Vanguard). Composer Peter Schickele's latest burlesque features Blaues Gras, a hilarious collision between a stately 18th century cantata and some mean pickin' and strummin'. It just shows what Spike Jones could have done if he had gone to Juilliard...