Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carey got the party started in the second. With two outs and nobody on, he pulled a pitch over Fenway's celebrated Green Monster. The ball bounced off the foul pole for a solo shot, giving Harvard (18-10) a 1-0 lead...
Hershman, 35, never made it to the Los Angeles suburb where he lived with his wife and two kids. Exhausted, he fell asleep behind the wheel and slammed into a telephone pole. His death last month has prompted many professionals in the world's most glamorous industry to call for an end to the grueling hours that are now the norm behind the scenes--a problem that has become even more endemic as studios rush to complete the megabudget "event" movies currently in vogue...
...movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. I felt drugged, disengaged." A bit later, without drama or any great feeling of elation, he reached the top: "a slender wedge of ice, adorned with a discarded oxygen cylinder and a battered aluminum survey pole, with nowhere higher to climb...
...Bean arrives at Pueblo Cito incognito the day before he is scheduled to appear at the town's annual bullfight, only to lose his memory when he is accidentally hit on the head by a pole. Finding speech notes dropped by Hector, he concludes that he is a politician and identifies himself as such. Meanwhile, Hector is mistaken by the townspeople for El Bean, and decides to use the error to his own advantage. Further complications arise when El Bean meets and falls in love with Ana, whose parents--or rather, whose mother--wish her to marry the great matador...
Some change in Antarctic climate is already noticeable. It seems to be snowing more often at the South Pole, an area remote from any obvious sources of additional moisture. In the continent's Dry Valleys region, the lake ice seems to be thinning. It actually rained briefly at the American base in McMurdo Sound this year. The Wordie Ice Shelf on the Antarctic peninsula has all but collapsed, signaling a retreat of the northern limit of permanent ice on the continent. And in the 1970s a portion of the sea-ice apron as big as California disappeared for three years...