Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broader measure-mandatory for the states-that revamped basic principles of unemployment compensation by 1) requiring uniform national scales of payment and length of eligibility, and 2) extending benefits to 1,000,000 workers not now covered. Drawled Harry Byrd: "The Senator from Massachusetts is at the North Pole and I am at the South Pole when it comes to the question of concentration of power in the Federal Government...
...hours went by, the conservative South Pole developed an ever stronger magnetic field. Behind Byrd's bill was a remarkably solid bloc of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson pointedly made no effort to use his vote-pulling power on Kennedy's behalf. Moreover, a cluster of liberal Democrats whose votes might have helped were not even in town for the debate, e.g., Tennessee's Albert Gore, who 16 weeks before was lecturing the Senate about the unemployment breadlines back home. And of the liberals on hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas...
Part of the reason for the team's comparatively dismal showing lies in the loss of quarter-miler French Anderson, of Eddie Martin in the distances, and of Doc Bennett, a promising pole vaulter. There were also injuries to two-miler Dyke Benjamin and dashman Sandy Dodge, as well as Jim Doty's bother-some skin rash which reduced his effectiveness in the shot...
Fortunately these woes were partly offset by the blossoming of several unheralded performers, notably captain-elect Al Gordon in the 440, Art Cahn in the 880, Hank Abbott in the shot, Sam Halaby in the pole vault, and Lee Barnes in the dashes...
...varsity will be stronger in several events, especially the pole vault, where freshmen Tom Blodgett and Jack Gougoutas along with Bennett will join Halaby and Dick Williams to make this a possible power event...