Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short days after the Eisenhower Administration came into office, a spike-haired young man named Robert Walter Scott McLeod clattered through the marble corridors of the State Department like a broncobuster. A onetime (1942-49) FBI agent and former administrative assistant to New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, McLeod was brought in to direct the State Department's security "cleanup" program, and he quickly kicked up a dust that never quite settled. Last week the dust blew and the epithets flew anew as President Eisenhower nominated Scott McLeod to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland...
...sharpens his baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result is spectacular, in a sort of highbrow Spike Jones vein...
...Spike Jones Show (Tues. 10:30 p.m., CBS). A new musical-variety series...
...Delany runs, the spike-scarred boards of Madison Square Garden's track curl out eleven uneventful laps to the mile. Other athletes strain to feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights of Columbus games last week, the pale, frail-looking Irishman loafed through the first 8½ laps as if lazing along the banks of the Liffey back home. He stayed an easy third; suddenly, almost imperceptibly, he moved to second, then, with a lap and a half...
...running down the ice-slick Cresta sled run. His objective: a descent fast enough to win him the Cresta sledders' Carder Cup. Face low in the biting wind, his nose scant inches from the ice, Bibbia scudded into Curzon, the first turn on the twisting chute. The special, spike-toed Cresta shoes that were his only brakes were clear of the glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping as much as one foot for every three he covered, Bibbia was close to 70 m.p.h. He "scratched...