Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory, asked for peace by God's help. He preached the "sin of international irresponsibility": "We have passed by on the other side when we have seen other nations in need or peril, or we have given them aid at the end of a 3,000-mile pole, fearful of involving ourselves in danger...
...Billeted in Scotland since the fall of France have been some 20,000 Poles who fought first in the Polish Army, then in the French, and now have their own units in the British Army. Learning English, the Poles have taught their hosts enough Polish so that in pubs near the camps even natives are as apt to say "Naz drowie" as "Here's how." And on the streets a Pole's "Good morning" is as likely as not to be answered by "Dzién dobry," with an "r" like a watchman's rattle...
Sleeper's Slip. In Memphis, a sleeping fireman woke to an alarm, jumped to the slide-pole, dropped like a plummet, broke his legs. Both his arms had gone to sleep...
Answer. In Buffalo, N.Y., Harran Ali asked Allah to get his wife out of the reformatory, made a burnt offering of his coat, afire on a pole in front of the County Hall. Result: a $5 fine for disorderly conduct...
...field events the Crimson Varsity took firsts in all but the broad jump, marking a clean sweep of first, second, and third in the shotput, hammer throw, and pole vault. Dick Pfister, in his track clothes for only the second time this fall, placed first in the shotput event...