Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Negroes, the acme of success is symbolized by the world of Adam Clayton Powell: the nirvana of the deprived, where the Good Life is also the Sportin' Life, and where power cruisers, beauty-queen girl friends and expense-account junkets are the talismans of achievement. At the other pole is the Negro's deeper vision of equality with white Americans in terms of individual intellect, ability and dignity. That vision is embodied by Senator Brooke...
...spring. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese housewives last week prepared mounds of hanh chung - rice cakes covered with a stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head for the stars to report to the Emperor of Jade, thus leaving the world to the evil offices of fork-tongued devils and scaly trolls...
...recreation, find that one five-gallon tank of gas lasts all day and opens up untracked terrain that would otherwise be inaccessible. One 8-man group of diehards is even planning to embark next month from northern Canada on a three-week, 800-mile snowmobile trip to the North Pole, pulling equipment and supplies along on sleds behind them. There is a practical side to snowmobiles too. In the Western states and New England they are replacing snowshoes for telephone linemen, country doctors, trappers, game wardens, farmers and oilmen. But for all their sudden popularity, snowmobiles have their foes. Police...
...Driver Ken Miles was killed testing a new "J" car at Riverside, Calif. The J was intended to supersede the Mark II, but it developed bugs; so Ford had to go into Daytona with last year's Mark IIs. Even so, California's Dan Gurney won the pole position by clocking 119 m.p.h., and all six company Fords qualified among the twelve fastest cars on the starting grid-despite the fact that Ferrari had entered three new "P4s," 900 Ibs. lighter than the Mark IIs and with only 40 fewer horses under their hoods...
...pole vault could be very close and very high. Steve Schoonover just can't quite seem to be able to clear 15 ft. He will fight it out up there on the ceiling with two Princeton men who have cleared 14 ft. 6 in. Yale has nothing...