Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half a second on each run due to mistakes," said Steele. "Near the middle of the first run, I caught an edge and got off the line, so I had to make a jam turn to get back in the course and had to jump around the next gate pole. Near the finish, as the course flattened out, I lost some more time over-edging...
...course had been changed for the second run, and as he approached the steepest section, Steele said he "forgot where I was for a second" and "turned in the middle of a gate instead of on the pole which put me low for the next...
...stuff used to be whipped up in the late 1700s by Harvard undergraduates to supplement the rather gross fare of the pre-Central Kitchen era. In those days, the story goes, you might catch a glimpse some night of students bearing a steaming kettle of this poison on a pole to wherever the Hasty Pudding Club was assembled for the evening. Everybody would then fill themselves to the accompaniment of mock trials staged by club members. Fortunately, both the College cusine and the Hasty Pudding have matured, although at times both still seem rather half-baked...
...Pole Vaulter Bob Seagren. In weight lifting, the 175-lb. part-time movie actor pressed 170 Ibs. to upset Frazier, who managed only 160 Ibs. Seagren also won the half-mile run and then outlasted Frazier and Skier Jean-Claude Killy to take the one-mile bicycle race. Going against an automatic baseball pitching machine, Seagren surprised himself and Runner-up Gilbert by stroking one ball over a barrier 300 feet away. His point total was good enough to win first-place money of $39,700. Killy was second and collected $23,400; Revson and Laver tied for third...
...wonder producer in the musical Say, Darling. "I'm trying to acquire the rights to a new book that I think will make a great musical," went one of his lines. "It's an eyewitness account of Sir Edmund Hillary's dash to the South Pole...