Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because Evans has lived such a long life in 34 years, but no matter what he is talking about, he always takes the time for a philosophical interjection. "If you give a man a fish, he can eat it for a day. But if you give him a fishing pole you can teach him how to eat for a lifetime...
While David Evans has been largely dedicated to securing lifetime meals to others, there have been some crucial incidents in his life that account for the existence of Evan's own fishing pole. When you are born the son of a sharecropper, when you are one of seven children, when both parents are dead by the time you are 16, there is not much of a chance for you to survive alone. However, David Evans and all of his brothers and sisters are thriving. Each has attended college and some have gone on through graduate school. As Evans puts...
...HARVARD, EVANS continues to live by the fishing pole theory. In 1971 he started a referral program for students turned down by Harvard who showed enough promise to be candidates for other schools. "The referral program is for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who, in many cases, are not informed about the criteria for admission to a place like Harvard. Many times students mistake large colleges' interviewing procedures and willingness to waive application fees as an early sign that they will be admitted. So they don't bother to apply to any back-up schools and after the rejections come they...
...When you leave the hill crest you leave the road," Wetzel said. He had been instructed to steer for a telephone pole across the road, which would serve as a bearing to keep him on course when the car touched down. "As the pole loomed in front me, and I got closer and closer, I couldn't help letting out a 'God almighty,'" he said. The race car landed 20 feet in front of the pole and Wetzel pulled through the turn...
...bird is a Tlingit Indian totem pole--a striking introduction to the museum's current exhibition of American Indian and Eskimo art. This exhibit, which the museum calls "the most important exhibition of Native Alaskan art ever assembled" finally brings ethnic art into the main exhibition halls of a great art museum, a place which, by its quality, it has long deserved...