Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent Christmas with U.S. troops in the Arctic, and now New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 74, was headed the other way, saying, "I don't want to slight the South Pole." He will spend Yuletide with the men assigned to U.S. Antarctic bases. It might be chilly, but the trip offers an unaccustomed bonus. Spellman will celebrate three Christmas Masses because of the international date line; a midnight Mass at McMurdo, then an 800-mile flight for a Christmas Day Mass at Byrd, and finally across the date line for another midnight Mass at the Amundsen-Scott...
...with a $250 hat, atop which stands a skeletal drummer and a ghostly dancer. When the hat is pulled down tight, the drummer's eyes light up and he begins a rhythmic tattoo, while the dancer follows his every beat. Prices or "playfulness" notwithstanding, Santa's North Pole helpers were never like this...
Army has a clear advantage in the pole vault, however, and will probably pick up points with second and third places in other field events. Thus, the two relays could very easily hold the balance of power. Harvard won the two mile relay in the Hepts last year, and has an excellent team again this year...
...offset the statistics with such personal observations, his economists sometimes complain that he has not given enough weight to the staff's figures. At such times, Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses a lamp pole for support, not for illumination...
...unique Automatic Electric four-wire switching system makes possible the reliable transmission characteristics which are so necessary in utility operation. Microwave radio is used in parts of the rugged terrain where pole line construction is impractical...