Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice. Totem poles, characteristic of British Columbia, are also made in the East Indies. A common pattern in both regions has human figures alternating on the pole with figures of fish or birds. Dr. Ekholm showed the Americanists carved sticks (miniature totem poles) from both Sumatra and British Columbia and challenged them to tell him which came from where. They confessed that the designs were so similar that they could only guess whether Asiatic or American Indians made them...
...custom of mercy killings, protested. "This is against the white man's wish," he said. Replied Nukashook:"Then I must do it myself." Faced with this resolution, Eeriykoot gave in. He persuaded his friend Ishakak to help. They tied the ends of a rope to the ridge pole of the tepee, then sat Nukashook close to the rope. The old woman placed her head in the loop, and her son pushed down on her neck until she was dead...
...freshness chiefly by keeping her life separate from the nervous and narcissistic world in which she moves. She prefers simple sport clothes, rarely wears evening gowns off the job, never goes to nightclubs. She keeps herself in fine modeling fettle-underweight (122 lbs.) and hard as a pole vaulter-by swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and gardening on her new four-acre farm. Daughter Mia frequently functions as her mother's severest critic. Whenever she does not like one of Lisa's ads, she pencils in bold crayon corrections or, by cutting down one of her mother...
...Criminal Mind. In Clearwater, Fla., 14 green flags stolen from the Clear-water Country Club last Christmas were returned with a note: "Sorry but we can't find any use for these." In Wichita Falls, Tex., F. D. Clark reported the disappearance of a 30-ft. telephone pole from Pocahontas Street. In New Brunswick, N.J., Kenneth Bergen's stolen sport jacket and two pairs of slacks were returned with a note: "Too small...
...prizes (roundtrip plane rides to the North Pole and Venezuela) were nontransferable and Noone was afraid that if he should go ("I'd rather go to Richmond on a bus"), he would have to pay income tax on the cash value of the journeys. Deciding against $1,000 in knitwear, Noone asked the manufacturer for a cash settlement. He was offered...