Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liles just beat Downs for first in the broad jump, as the varsity took first and second. Sam Halaby and Dick Williams tied Princeton's Bob Manning for first in the pole vault at 12 feet...
...temporary retirement was well-traveled Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and the South Pole, who withdrew from a proposed lecture tour in Britain, as he put it, "to stay home with Mum and the kids"-for a year-in New Zealand. In the Hillary future: physiological endurance tests in his old freezing grounds, the Himalayas, possibly another Antarctic expedition...
...discus with a toss of 143 feet, 5 1/4 inches, while John deKiewiet won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 inch. Skip Pescosolido won the javelin at 186 feet, 9 inches, while Sam Halaby surprised with a 12 foot, 6 inch tie for first in the pole vault...
...check the level of radioactivity. Report: no danger. Reason: nuclear bombs have been painstakingly designed so that they cannot function unless they go through a complex arming process, and the Air Force is not likely to fly with armed nuclear bombs this side of the Iron Curtain or the Pole...
...Pole Apart. In Grand Junction, Colo., a shiny new police car drove into a municipal parking lot on a routine assignment, slowly cruised around as the driver checked the left side and his companion checked the right, smacked head-on into a telephone pole...