Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local potato farmers and tourists cheered wildly as National Guardsmen fired a 50-gun salute and raised an American flag. More than 7,500 miles west of Maine, 15,000 people-almost half the population of American Samoa -crammed into the capital, Pago Pago, for a weekend of pole climbing, dancing competitions and boat races...
...largely abandoned tradition of U.S. journalism.* It was the New York Herald that sent Henry M. Stanley on one of history's most celebrated man hunts ("Find Livingstone!" ordered Publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr. in 1869). The Times backed Commander Robert E. Peary in the 1908 North Pole race with $4,000 and got more for its money than the Herald, which put $25,000 behind Dr. Frederick Cook. In 1922 the Times bought U.S. rights to stories from an archaeological expedition seeking King Tut's tomb, a venture in which the London Times staked $100,000. Meyer...
BOSTON--Dick Pole will start on the mound for the Boston Red Sox tonight against the division-leading New York Yankees, as managers Darrell Johnson and Billy Martin plan to keep their starting rotation intact despite yesterday's rain postponement...
...putting together scratch singles and errors most of the time, with the tension but not the screeching of Thursday. Saturday was a little different; the Catfish lived up to his price tag, scattering three hits in 11 innings before the Yankees finally broke through the sturdy pitching of Dick Pole and Tom House...
Other Harvard trackmen placed high in their events. David Kinney placed second in the javelin, Huntington Block and Mitch Whitten garnered fifth places in the long jump and shot put, respectively, and Jeff Stiles placed third in the pole vault...