Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Geoff Stiles hurdled to another win in the pole vault, crossing the bar at 14 ft. even. Teammate Steve Hanes backed up Stiles with a second-place...
Take the circumstances of As the World Turns, the quintessential "coffee table" drama that is all talk. The tent-pole characters?good, decent people on whom a plot may safely be hung ?are Chris Hughes, a lawyer, and his wife Nancy. They are a sixtyish couple living out their days in trauma. Their...
...Great God! This is an awful place. " So wrote the English explorer Robert Falcon Scott after he reached the South Pole in 1912. Scott, who was just beaten to the pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had good reason to complain. Temperatures regularly drop to -100º F. during the polar winter. Sudden storms bring gale-force winds, and visibility frequently drops to zero during a "whiteout," making it impossible to see perilous crevasses ahead. Yet in spite of its hostile environment, Antarctica is becoming the object of increasing worldwide interest. Its shrimplike krill and millions of seals make...
Already, in that bleached wasteland of snow and ice, American technology has made its mark. Last January, after four years of construction and some 300 cargo flights to the South Pole, the U.S. opened a new $6 million base at 90° south latitude. Officially known as the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, it replaces an older base now completely buried under...
...hung heavily over the abandoned quarry. Six small children sat around an open wood fire eating their breakfast of bread and coffee. Two women scrubbed clothes in the open while a small boy struggled under the weight of two five-gallon cans of water slung from a pole across his shoulders...