Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yardlings won eight events to roll up a total of 120 points while stand-outs Dave Elliot, Tom New, and Mark Connally watched from the sidelines. The freshmen also performed without the services of pole-vaulters Steve Skane and Chris St. Lawrence...
There was little question as to the outcome of the meet after Harvard swept the long jump, triple jump, pole vault, and javelin and took the first two places in the high jump. By shutting the Indians out, the Crimson more than offset Dartmouth's expected domination of the throwing events...
Irving admires girl jockeys, however. "Barbara Jo Rubin has as much heart as men have. In New Orleans, she took the stake. She outslicked Robert L. Boyd, the slick himself. She let him go out there, took him off the pace at the eighth pole, crowded him at the sixteenth, and beat him at the wire...
...eighth pole it's Blinking Excuse... Home Chat is taking the lead.... And it's Home Chat...
...Democrat. Worse, "it sounds like I'm totally uninvolved-like being a ski instructor in Berlin during World War II." She has been criticized for not championing the feminist revolution. That suits her fine. Most of the revolutionaries, she says, "are just like roller-derby dropouts, or Russian pole-vaulting types." The uncharacteristic club is quickly replaced by a tickling feather. She adds: "When I make speeches I'm always asked, 'Have you burned your bra yet?' I tell them I took a halfway measure: I scorched mine on the ironing board...