Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yanks tallied early on a Roy White homer which squeaked inside the right-field foul pole. In the second inning, Bucky Dent popped a grounder to third base, scoring Nettles for a 2-1 Yankee lead...
...concern. In the past 20 years, it rose almost as much as it did in the century before. These measurements, made by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography atop Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii, are confirmed by similar readings at locations as far-flung as the South Pole, Alaska and Samoa...
Today any mishap, no matter how fluky, can wind up in court. Take the case of the woman who collected $50,000 damages from San Francisco with the contention that her fall against a pole in a runaway cable car transformed her into a nymphomaniac. Or the pedestrian who, as she crossed Chicago's Sears Tower plaza, suffered a broken jaw when the wind toppled her against a guard rail. She recently filed a $250,000 suit against the architects and manager of the building. Her argument: the structure's design increased wind velocities in the area; moreover...
...members of the Circumnavigators Club in New York City include Senator Barry Goldwater, who walked around the world both ways at the South Pole; Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who holds the record for the highest circumnavigation; and Admiral James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap aboard the nuclear submarine Skate. But last week the 76-year-old club snubbed a sailor who traveled around the world alone in a 53-ft. sloop because the mariner was ineligible to join the club, which restricts membership to "men of good stature...
...second expedition to the Antarctic in 1933, invented seismic methods for the discovery of oil, and recorded the voices of sea mammals over the past 15 years; in Menlo Park, Calif. Poulter led the party that saved Byrd's life when the admiral, living alone near the South Pole, suffered from carbon-monoxide poisoning and began sending incoherent radio messages...