Word: pole-vault
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Dave Randall, second in the pole-vault, and Tom Lenz, third in the 35-lb. weight throw, chipped in with solid efforts while Bruce Brooks (second) and Shawn Hall (third) continued to demonstrate that the triple-jump has been transformed from a Crimson weakness to a strength...
...themes have been introduced and explored, usually with much more immediacy, by other writers. Take, for instance, the impact of television in reshaping American politics. Theodore H. White '38 in The Making of the President 1960 broke the story of the Kennedys' deliberate use of television and polls to pole-vault the regular party structure as well as time and space restrictions on national candidates. Joe McGinnis's The Selling of the President 1968, a case study of media merchandising, provided a much more chilling and prophetic account of Richard Nixon's packaging than all of Halberstam's hindsighted anecdotes...
...time may come when Brunnhilde will pole-vault to her immolation,when Lohengrin will wear a T shirt with his name on it. Wagner was a composer with a bold theatrical imagination; one might think that his instructions would occupy directors for centuries. Instead his works have revisionists been in attracting Europe; among them Gotz Friedrich, Harry Kupfer, and Patrice Chéreau, whose Ring cycle set in the industrial revolution remains the standard for irreverence...
Harvard should be a shoo-in for wins in hammer (Hughes), the long and triple jumps (Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace), and pole-vault (Jim Kleiger and Blayne Heckel...
...record-setting performance in the pole-vault by junior Jim Kleiger highlighted a busy weekend for the Harvard track team...