Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obviously, concludes Brown, the earth's poles were once in different places. Siberia was warm, and the mammoths fattened on greenery. But little by little, ice accumulated near the cold poles. Then, to balance the mass of the ice, slightly off center, the earth toppled over. The oceans sloshed out of their beds. When things quieted down, the earth was a sad mess, rotating on a new axis. The North Pole, settling near Siberia, quick-froze the mammoths...
...minute later, at 4:19, Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina jumped out a window of the consulate (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the most sensational story of the week tumbled right into the lap of the press. The men went to work on it as swiftly as firemen sliding down a pole...
...Israelis guffaw. They say that when one yecki found a sick chicken he sent all the way to India for a serum, inoculated every one of his flock. They tell of a yecki with an old dry cow who asked a Polish Jew to sell it for him. The Pole found a Russian Jew to whom he said: "This is a fine young cow; she gives six liters of milk every day." The yecki, standing by, said: "Well, well, that I didn't know; I'd like to buy her back." To new arrivals the Eastern Jews...
Evening had fallen, and the floodlights were on, when Mathias cleared the pole vault (11 ft. 5¾ in.). After that, with an official marking the foul line for him with a flashlight, he threw the javelin. The few spectators who stood in the drizzling gloom could barely see the shaft as he hurled it 165 ft. 1 in. It was getting on towards midnight, and Mathias had only the 1,500-meter run left to do. If he could make it in anything like decent time, the championship was his. But could he? The boy from Tulare, Calif...
...Paterson, Schindler seemed to hold back. Time after time, as Veteran Chauffeur Bob Disbrow* hugged the pole out front, Schindler drove his black Offenhauser up alongside him, stomped on the foot-throttle and seemed about to pass. And each time in turn he eased off, slid back into the second slot again. At the race's end, he was still second man. When Schindler pulled up, swung the stump of his left leg over the side and reached for his crutches, his fans showed their disappointment, but Bronco Bill did not. "There was oil on that track," he explained...