Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, probably no one beats the Crimson at pole-vaulting. Steve Schonover bursts into varsity track as an advanced-placement sophomore; he soared to 14' 4 1/2" at Niskayuna High in New York and he should vault 14 feet Saturday despite a sore leg. That is still a generous 1-4 inch above the previous mark set by Truman Ford...
...they were personally to blame for the blackout. After trimming the ends of some loose wires in readiness for the house painters next day, a Manhattan housewife saw the whole city go black and gasped: "What have I done now?" A small boy in Conway, N.H., whacked a telephone pole with a stick, saw night descend, and raced home weeping to his mother...
...describing the indescribable spirit of adventure that is instinctive to mankind and has been intensified in America, which was discovered and explored and grew to greatness under adventure's drive. De Tocqueville translated adventure into "individualism," and suspected it would lead to despotism. But Count Adam Gurowski, a Pole who settled in the U.S., wrote in 1857: "Excitement is one of the most powerful springs in the American. It is so contagious that newcomers, after a comparatively short residence, are affected and carried away...
...wall at bed level, and a slightly larger win dow above it was fitted with bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that looked like the gadget used to pluck a cereal box off the top shelf of a grocery store, Surgeon Humphreys was going to reach through the opening in the wall and remove an ostrich-egg-sized lump from the back of a Vietnamese farmer...
...secondary characters are no less puzzling than the girl, for many of them seem quite different every time they appear. None is developed fully enough so that the facets of his personality cohere; and since Polanski, a Pole, is directing in a language foreign to him, the English dialogue doesn't add much. (Catherine Deneuve, who plays the girl, and Yvette Furneaux, who plays her sister, are speaking in a foreign language too.) Repulsion is undeniably interesting, and should give most people frisson or two. But like the opening credits, which glide up and down Miss Deneuve's glistening eyeball...