Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King's death. At 5 o'clock one morning last week, fortified with a final bottle of orange squash apiece, the three were led into the execution pavilion at Bangkwang Prison. Their hands were clasped together in the traditional Buddhist greeting and lashed to an upright pole. In each upraised hand, prison guards placed a ceremonial candle, joss sticks and a garland of small, pink Siamese orchids. Then a dark blue curtain was dropped behind each victim and the executioner fired a burst from his machine...
...pole vault and the shotput were hurt the most by inexperience, since the team lacked a pole vauiter and the best shotputter dove for the swimming team...
Outstanding victories by Art Willis in the mile and Dick Wharton in 1000, along with Joel Cohen's win in the 60-yard high hurdles, gave the varsity a slight lead on Yale. But hen Yale won the pole vault, the jumps, the hammer, and the shot, even the varsity's sweep of the relays was not enough to stave off the Elis who tallied 56 3-5 points to the Crimson's 53 2-5, and the Tiger...
Andover won by scoring sweeps in the shot put, hurdles and pole vault. The other Crimson winners were Tom Zierk, who took the broad jump, and Dave Norris, who won the mile...
Dartmouth took the jumps and the pole vault, but the Crimson's depth in these events nearly equalized the Indian's wins. Rittenburg placed second to Dartmouth Captain John Harlor in the broad jump and tied Dartmouth's Dick Fairley for first in the high jump. Sophomore Hank Moore was second in the high jump...