Word: poled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the first week of September, the 1987 World Track and Field Championships will be held in Rome. The casual viewer of "NBC Sportsworld" has undoubtedly seen the events before--the pole vault, steeplechase, sprints and hurdles. But most people haven't developed an appreciation for what the athletes do to accomplish such feats...
...then observed the pole vault competition. I always thought that this event was so easy: in order to set a world record, just buy a 50-foot long fiberglass pole...
...Cross seminary and later taught theology at the university, has gone at his prodigious works with unwavering energy and focus -- plus a regal self-assurance. A globe-trotter who covers as many as 150,000 miles a year proselytizing for Notre Dame, he has said Mass at the South Pole and at the Faculty House of the University of Moscow. (The difference between God and Hesburgh, goes an old campus joke, is that God is everywhere and Hesburgh everywhere but Notre Dame.) With this spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains a natural sense of command. "The very...
...seniors managed to win events in their last career meet. Chris "Robertson copped the 400-meter run with a time of 49.9, and Steve Pinney leapt to victory with a pole vault of 14-ft., 6-in Pinney also took third in the high jump with a 6-ft., 6-in. leap...
...privately owned aircraft builders in France, Britain, West Germany and Spain. But it did not sell a single jet to a U.S. airline for seven years. Says Robert Kugel, an aerospace analyst at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "U.S. carriers wouldn't touch European airliners with a ten-foot pole. They had a reputation for poor quality and maintenance." That perception gradually changed. By 1987 some 360 of the medium-range A300 (up to 375 passengers) and the A310 (250 passengers) were flying under the banners of 58 airlines around the world, including such U.S. carriers as Eastern...