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Word: spiking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threatened to have "Yippie girls dressed up as whores, but young, you know, and nice" slip LSD into convention delegates' drinks, recruit "Yippie studs whose job is to seduce the delegates' wives and daughters," and spike Chicago's water supply with...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

With the match tied, Harvard managed to jump to an early 13-2 lead over flustered Springfield. Now it was Springfield's turn to rally--ten straight points. Harvard's Peter Haviland spiked an unreturnable ball to a blocker for the 14th point. And then Graham, on a hesitation spike, sucked his blocker into the net for the game and the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Spikers Victorious in Clutch, Narrowly Defeat Powerful Springfield | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

...increasing propensity to jail and dismiss defense attorneys for minor or nonexistent infractions led finally to an effort to spike Cannon. Last week a California judicial commission formally asked the state supreme court to remove the Stanford Law School graduate for willful misconduct and actions "prejudicial to the administration of justice." Judge Cannon was forthwith suspended pending the court's decision. She has yet to shoot back with her reaction-at least in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Spiking Cannon | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Palm, a graduate student in English and a former volleyball star at Yale, changed a limping offense to a successful Olympic-style 6-0 game-controlling strategy where three front court men set to the three front court men for the spike and the point...

Author: By Kathleen T. Riley, | Title: Volleyball Team Faces Eastern Meet | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

EQUUS. The bizarre saga of a boy who blinds six horses with a metal spike. Galvanically theatrical, albeit specious in substance. The boy (Peter Firth) and his psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins) give performances in the megaton range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Year's Best | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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