Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other U.S. military air accidents last week, a Navy jet bomber buzzed California's El Centro Naval Air Facility in a Navy Day show, clipped a power pole and slammed into a recreation center. Nine persons were killed...
Breedlove soon boosted the mark to 526 m.p.h.-and nearly killed himself when Spirit clipped through a telephone pole, soared 35 ft. over a dike, and dived into a 20-ft.-deep drainage ditch...
...this serene confidence in victory no matter who runs that has kept the state's politics tied to the lowest common denominator. The present Auditor Theodore Buzcko, was appointed to his post after the death of his predecessor just before the primary because he was a Pole (there hadn't been any Polish constitutional officers for a while) and because he was friendly with both the Kennedy and Bellotti camps, and important asset in the strained atmosphere immediately following the primary. Buzcko himself, though a charming and ambitious man, knows practically nothing of accounting, and it is not difficult...
...splintering of the Democratic Party is revealed in the appointments for lower office. Here every Greek, Pole, Jew, Frenchman, Portugese, Armenian, Negro or Italian has a claim on something, and the party is merely the facade behind which the unseemly scramble for office takes place. Little heed is paid either to law or decency, especially since most appointments for confirmation must pass through the Governor's Council, a body often said to be up for sale or open to influence...
...entrance into Harvard (in the eyes of his hometown admirers an increase in stature) is to him a diminishment, in the most immediate sense. He is anonymous, low man on the totem pole. Like Jacob, he must win the birthright through ploys. As Jacob tricked Isaac into bestowing his blessing by putting on the godly rainments of his brother, and the skins of the kids of goats upon his hands, so does many a freshman, with the voice of Jacob, display to the world the hands of Esau...