Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headstones of their graves is carved a solemn record of history. The names themselves ring with historic significance : William Howard Taft, the only President to exercise his prerogative as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield's Secretary of War, and the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil Sheridan; Air General Henry ("Hap") Arnold and Admiral Marc ("Turn on the Lights") Mitscher; William Gibbs McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's World War I Secretary...
...that nothing is sacred on All Hallow's Eve by planting a large and cynical pumpkin on top of the book that has for many years held John's undivided attention. But the Grounds Crew came to the slow-witted scholar's rescue with a ladder and a long pole. The crew reported through its collective nose that the intruder suffered from acute internal decay, but the statue maintained its dignity and an Ozymandian silence...
Bridey then had the stakes once again turned toward the Harvard goal. They should have been lined up on the 37 and 27 yard lines with the pole signifying Bucknell had a second down and 13 to go, but they were on the 40 and 30 yard lines, with the pole reading fourth down...
...dinner, grace is said by either Donald or Joe, in conversational man-to-man tones: "Father, we thank Thee for this day and particularly for this food. Go with us through the further part of this night. Amen." The meal is hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans with lots of shelled ones mixed among the snaps, whippoorwills (brown peas), okra (fixed in a "made-up" dish with corn-bread crumbs and meats, so as to remove the slickness), corn, sweet potatoes, candied pears, eggbread sticks, biscuits, cake and ice cream. Most of the food is produced...
...Barber stands at the opposite pole from Huckleberry Finn or David Copperfield, and it may strike some people as more precious than priceless. But the reader can justly tell Author Reid, in the words of Squeaker, the learned rat: "It's universally granted that you're a most agreeable little boy-much above the average...