Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). But, wrote Baltimore's crusty old H. L. Mencken (who had himself been accused of Communism after World War I): "The number of such cases has been greatly overestimated by the bogus 'liberals' who are always so ready to slide down the pole when Reds sound the alarm...
Last week, on his 82nd birthday, the professor put on his tiny, camel-hide shoes. He picked up his 24-ft., 24-lb. balancing pole and stepped out into yawning space. In mid-canyon he stopped, knelt creakily until one knee touched the wire, lurched up, went on. Pale, panting, drenched with sweat, he reached the other side...
...other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian and not just a Kremlin stooge. Its peril lay in the fact that guerrilla-wise Tito knew this, and alone among satellite satraps had the necessary independence and power to put his knowledge to use. Moscow could forgive the medals on Tito's chest, the little...
Paul Whiteman, 57, "King of Jazz" of the '20s, suffered superficial injuries and a $5 fine for careless driving when he smashed his car against a telephone pole near Williamstown...
London's Victoria and Albert Museum was once considering the purchase of three drawings by a young Pole named Feliks Topolski. Said one committeeman: "We must draw the line somewhere!" Portraitist Augustus John answered the objection with a crack: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...