Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kids had the whooping cough, and I was worried about my dog, who was in the baggage car. When we got off the train in Seattle, I didn't see either the dog or my father. Then, all at once, we saw the dog tied to a telephone pole and my father coming to welcome us." With dog and father accounted for, Art Langlie looked around, announced, "I'm going to like it here, Mother. I like the trees and the water...
...most bizarre murder cases in Poland's history. The Polish Communist press, usually confined to turgid polemics, devoted column after column to full and sensational reports by 80 reporters covering the trial ("It is refreshing to read again about ordinary human frailties," said one Pole). Some spectators paid as much as 2,000 zlotys (three months' pay for a workman) for a black-market ticket to get into the packed courtroom. Mazurkiewicz, the center of all the attention, is a 48-year-old ex-army officer who had a reputation in Cracow as an elegant, free-spending...
...membership. This time there was no denunciation of Gomulka's opinions. Instead the broadcast emphasized that "representatives of the Politburo met with Comrade Gomulka" to consult him on "fundamental problems." The Politburo's purpose seemed clear. Gomulka's nationalism had won him the admiration of many Poles, including some antiCommunists, and by re-garbing him in the raiment of Marxist grace, the party hoped to win favor with people who say that if they must be governed by Communists, better a Communist who sometimes remembers he is also a Pole...
Next afternoon Johnson took a third in the hurdles. Then, in the process of taking first place in the discus throw, he reinjured his left knee. Even so, he placed second in the pole vault, third in the javelin throw. But he dropped far back in the grinding 1,500-meter run. Though he had failed to break his own world's record, Johnson's final total of 7,754 points made him an easy first. Behind him, Navy's Milt Campbell scored 7,555, the Rev. Bob Richards 7,054. For the first time in history...
...four best spear-tossers ran a sprint race, the three fastest sprinters flung a discus, and the two finalists wrestled for a wreath of olive leaves. The modern decathlon consists of the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500-meter...