Word: spiking
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...lack of natural speed with daring, guile and meanness. His favorite tricks included kicking the ball out of a fielder's hand or permitting a throw to hit him. "I believe the base paths belong to the base runner," Cobb said-and he did not hesitate to spike infielders who tried to block his way to the bag. After he slashed Philadelphia's famed Frank ("Home Run") Baker on the arm in 1909, Cobb received 13 threatening letters from Philadelphia fans. The fans never got revenge, but Cobb's opponents did: by the time Cobb retired...
...also record the panic of an entire town, collapse a real train and a real timber trestle "420 ft. long and 200 ft. high." Yet, disappointingly, the actual sounds of collapse were so implausible that the moviemakers had to resort to studio fabrication, recording the noise of a bent spike being pulled out of a thick board with a crowbar and replaying the sound in an echo chamber at one-third its normal speed. Like the movie itself, it was simple, effective and cheap...
Saturday actually started in disappointing fashion for the varsity, as Spike Paranya of Wosleyan edged Mark Mullin by six inches in the mile. Mullin led most of the way, with quarter times of 60.8, 2:06.3, and 3:14.5, until the final stretch, when Paranya just managed to pull ahead...
...expected battle between Mark Mullin and Spike Paranya of Wesleyan in the mile could be the highlight of the IC4A meet at Randalls Island today and tomorrow. The Crimson's Stan Doten should take first in the hammer throw, as the varsity bids for a high finish in the Eastern championships...
...screams coming from the visitors' gallery. As Stevenson stopped and stared, some 60 Negroes burst into the gallery, scrambled down the aisle shouting "Lumumba!'' flailed wildly at the astonished guards. One woman, shrieking like a banshee, laid out a cop with a skull blow from her spike-heel shoe. It took 15 minutes to drag the screaming, kicking demonstrators outside, where they continued their demonstration on the sidewalk. Some may have been Communist, but most were merely excited members of Manhattan Negro factions. But the Communists lost no time in exploiting them; Party Secretary Ben Davis turned...