Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity members stepping down to the j.v. are quarterback Ron Johnson, halfbacks Charlie Leamy and Al Cullen, full-back Stan Merkel, ends Warren Huff and John Soucek, tackle Ted Robbins, guards Carl Framke and George Waterman and centers Pete Eliades and Spike Browne...
...probable starting lineup will include Dalton Avery, in his third j.v. year, center; Bob Snodgrass at right guard; Henry Abbott at right tackle; Paul Kirk at right end; Spike Browne at left guard; Joe George, third year j.v., left tackle; Frank Bachinski at left end; Marlow, quarterback; Bill Pescosolido, left halfback; Frank Newell at right halfback; and Dave Capiello at fullback...
Standing on the runway on insectlike legs, the plane had a hunched, tense look. Its nose was a sharp metal spike, and the leading edges of its delta wing curled downward a little, suggesting a cobra's hood. But even when it was standing still, it seemed to be moving, and when its engines opened wide, it snapped forward like a toy on a rubber cord and leaped into the air at a sharp angle. The plane was the new B58 Hustler, a bomber made by Convair...
...almost no physical assets. The giant's muscles are the 4,000 U.P. staffers who keep its hundreds of news printers thumping out 60 words a minute, in 45 languages, around the clock. Their copy must be crisply written to escape the editor's spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman...
...Tossed out at home: the Detroit Tigers' Walter ("Spike") Briggs Jr. A man with a tiger by the tail ever since he inherited the team from his father, Spike tried hard not to let go. When the courts ordered him to sell, he talked the new owners into keeping him on as executive vice president and general manager, but last week his resignation was "accepted." Said Spike: "It was a semi-force play." ¶ A warm spring day left Olympic Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski with a spring to spare. In a dual meet with Stanford, the Occidental College senior...