Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some have gone far toward the North Pole, to invade the haunts of the iceberg with their inquisitive and unsparing eyes-some have gone to the far West, where Nature plays with the illimitable and grand-some have become tropically mad, and are pursuing a sketch up and down the Cordilleras, through Central America and down the Andes. If such is the spirit and persistency of American art, we may well promise ourselves good things for the future...
...bottom of the twelfth. When Fisk stroked the ball high toward the Green Monster, the hearts of Red Sox fans from Concord, New Hampshire, to Pawtucket, RhodeIsland, skipped a beat. Was it fair or foul? Ancient Fenway was generous this time: the ball caromed off the foul pole and into fair territory for a home...
...years. A few hundred yards farther along his route, a blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it. Parts of the shattered car rained down as far as 250 feet away...
...school, performing at the Loeb and in House productions. The perfect job was steady work as an actor with The Proposition, a Cambridge-based improvisational performing troupe. Emerson remained with The Proposition for 15 months, rising, due to a heavy turnover rate, from low man on the totem pole to senior member of the resident company. He lived in Cambridge, but says that he was very conscious of wanting not to depend on Harvard for his social life. "I had a lot of free time, spent a lot of time reading, and a lot of time alone. I probably suffered...
During the eight-hour pole vault final I was vocally rooting for United States entrants Dave Roberts and Earl Bell. I fear that if I had not, the tense, close competition which featured more of athletes psyching each other and themselves than actual leaping would have been a more effective cure for insomnia than a bottle of Nytol. Certainly, as the endless, often meaningless myriad of women's and men's track heats was paraded before me, the eye searched hopefully for a familiar face and the blue and red costumes with USA lettering on which to focus...