Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once went on for weeks as each side tried to have its flag stand higher in the meeting room. They finally agreed that only miniature flagpoles, both of precisely equal size, would be placed on the table, but North Korea has put a spike point atop its tiny table pole to gain a minute one-inch height advantage. Language across the table, which is predictably tough, reached a peak last year when the senior member on the U.N. side, U.S. Major General Richard Ciccolella, violated past practice and started addressing his opposite number directly with such salty salutations...
...remaining rotation was stopped when three electromagnetic coils were energized and the spacecraft lined up with the earth's magnetic field. To eliminate oscillations caused by gravitational pull on the tended antennas, a 630-ft. boom also be deployed, much like a tightrope-walker's balancing pole...
These four men, led by a veteran Antarctic cartographer and explorer named Wally Herbert, comprise the British Trans-Arctic Expedition, and their aim is to drive by sled from Barrow to the Pole and down to Spitzbergen Island--3,500 miles all told. Perry and the other adventurers who roamed the ice pack 60 years ago traveled a few hundred miles out on the ice, perhaps to the pole, and then turned back. But Herbert's group plans to spend a full 16 months in their crossing, with frequent scientific observations along...
...July 6th, the ice had become too soft for further travel, so the Expedition settled down for a 13-week summer rest. By this time the ocean currents had produced favorable ice drifting, sometimes ten miles a day toward the Pole. Yet at 83 North and 165 West, they are still 170 miles short of the spot on the International Date Line where they had originally planned to set up camp...
...August or September, plans call for more sledding on firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England