Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swimming pool. Boston Celtic Star John Havlicek immediately complained about his lane assignment next to Shotputter Brian Oldfield ('I'll drown in the tidal wave he creates"). After two laps, Oldfield surfaced gasping and decided to watch the close finish between defending Superstar Champion Bob Seagren, a pole vaulter by profession, and Kyle Rote Jr., son of the former New York Giants split end and a professional soccer star in his own right. Rote won by a hair...
...athletes--Mel Embree in the high jump, and Blayne Heckel in the pole vault--who placed for points last year, so it is realistic that we can get some more this year," Stowell said...
...plot can at least be understood. A rescue from a heathen harem may not be improbable, but the ending of the story is. The clever translation tightens the dialogue, and fits the comic intentions of the author. ("He is but an honest simple soul"/"His head belongs upon the pole...
FAIRNTOSH, "stately traditional plantation home," whose owner is commemorated by a silver, state-erected plaque on a pole as "one of the state's largest slaveholders before the War." The family had brought the name from their estate in Ireland and assembled here outside of Exeter a couple of hundred slaves and a couple of thousand acres...
Other scorers for Harvard included Leon Sharpe (fourth in the long jump). Jay Hughes and Steve Niemi (fourth and fifth place in the weight throw), Don Berg (fifth in the pole vault) and Joel Peters (fifth...