Word: poled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before Australia was Australia it was the antipodes, the opposite pole to civilization, an obscure and unimaginable place that was, literally, the end of the world. And before it became a nation, this orphan continent on which European history had left no mark at all became the site of a bizarre and dreadful social experiment. For almost a hundred years, beginning in 1788, it served as a human trash heap where England exiled some 160,000 members of its criminal class...
Christopher Robertson won a close 500 meter race with a time of 1:07.1 and placed third in the pole vault with a vault of 9 ft., 8 in. Finishing ahead of Robertson was freshman Robert Goodson who took second with a vault...
Marriage and alimony jokes have all but become fixtures of his Tonight show monologue, but no kidding, folks, Johnny Carson, 61, is serious about getting married a fourth time. The bean-pole comic's flacks let it be known last week that he has become engaged to Alex Maas, a blond beauty in her mid-30s who has been his live-in for the past year and a half. Carson met Maas on the beach near his Malibu home. No date has been set for the wedding. It is understandable if Carson is in no hurry to retie the knot...
...North Pole flight pad, Christmas 'round the bend...
Victorious men thinclads were Joseph Giani with a 46-ft., 3 1/2-in. throw in the shotput, Steven Pinney with a 14-ft., 6-in. jump in the pole vault, Robert Gustafson with a 6-ft., 4-in. high jump, Chris Robertson with a 1:06.75 time in the 500, and freshman Nick Arera with...