Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skylight is diffused over the painting. Because the outer edge of the umbrella hid parts of the painting from the camera, a roofing company was hired to raise the umbrella. ½ With floor leveled and ceiling raised, there remained the most challenging obstruction of all, a large steel pole standing in the center of the building-and this was immovable...
Right from the start the Navy crew lived up to Coach Callow's confidence. It jumped to a quick lead, moved past the mile pole stroking a smooth and powerful 30, a long boatlength ahead of Cornell. Pulling hard to hold second place, ahead of the Washington Huskies, Cornell moved up in the last 100 yards, but Navy was home free, winner by a length and a half...
Retaliation. In Columbus, Ohio, after her husband William struck her with a fishing pole and then went off fishing with a crony, Mrs. Evelyn Easterday doused the house with kerosene, set a match to it, watched it burn to the ground...
...trucks, but the explosion did not bother a pregnant woman padding impassively along with her bare-bottomed child and her geese. French artillery opened fire, yet a couple of peasants dog-trotted calmly past the guns with a brace of squealing pigs suspended from a pole. They did not waste their glances upon the foreigners and their machines...
...crowd, as well as trainer, jockey and owner, are still shaken by the Big Grey's mercilessly teasing performance. "I wanted to start moving up at the half-mile pole," says relieved Jockey Guerin, "but the horse just wouldn't move then. Was I scared? You're damned right, right down to 50 yards away. I rode him with confidence all right"?he manages a sickly grin?"but he damn near betrayed me." The Dancer merely gulps a few big gulps of air, gives his customary fine TV performance in the winner's circle, and saunters down the shady...