Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they kept the band working, Americans set record after record. Texas' strapping Randy Matson won the shotput and set an Olympic record of 67 ft. 10¾ in.; California's Bob Seagren soared to another new Olympic mark by clearing 17 ft. 8½ in. in the pole vault. In the short dashes, California's Jim Hines clocked 9.9 sec. in the men's 100 meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there...
...Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault bar at 17 ft. 9 in. to break the world record...
...fishing boat's pulpit stood the intrepid harpooner, dart-tipped pole in hand. Down flashed the steel into a huge sperm whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove...
Died. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, 71, Soviet military hero, victor in the incredibly tenacious defenses of Moscow and Stalingrad during World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. A Pole by birth, a Communist and Russian by inclination, Rokossovsky commanded 1,000,000 men at one point, and though his losses were staggering, inflicted such casualties on the Wehrmacht that the entire course of the war was changed. Somewhat less glorious was his conduct in August 1944, when, under Stalin's orders, he refused aid to the embattled Poles during the Warsaw uprising, stood blandly by while the Germans destroyed much...
...also wears a black rubber bra with red rims designed to resemble huge sunglasses. What follows is verbal love play and a kind of spoofy striptease in which the twosome gingerly play on the supposed skittishness of the audience. After a mock wedding ceremony in front of a barber pole ("Do you, Pandy, take this girl Mandy, because she is randy?"), a climactic libation scene occurs. Pandy and Mandy put on green mitts the size of baseball gloves and sponge each other off, resulting in the outre spectacle of streaky green pubic hair...