Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What immediately struck me in the "convention hall" was how similar everything seemed to the gathering I had just attended in San Diego. The state identification cards were the same three-sided posters encasing a pole. The pictures showed similarly devout throngs of supporters. And the "election room" footage from the night Kennedy won seemed identical to our modern coverage, except it was in black-and-white...
...night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul...
Already one of these new satellites, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has taken movies of hot gas streaming into space from a magnetic belt girdling the sun. And the Polar Satellite, so-called because it passes over the North Pole, recently snapped the clearest pictures ever seen of the aurora borealis, the shimmering curtains of light that are the visible fallout from space storms...
Rimes has taken that popcorn-kernel-in-the-throat catch, married it to old-fashioned yodeling and become a crossover star. On the hit single Blue and on an Eddy Arnold duet of the venerable Cattle Call, her voice breaks with startling ease and, in a microsecond, pole-vaults from barroom belter in the low register to choir girl in the high. If there were no feeling behind it, this double-jointed vocalizing would be only a freak talent. But Rimes either knows the heartsickness behind country songs or can fake it brilliantly. There is a hint of girlishness...
Richardson had her opportunity in the third inning of the gold-medal game between the U.S. and China. With a runner on first in a scoreless game, she lifted a fly ball deep down the right-field line. As it sailed toward the foul pole, the exuberant 5-ft. 5-in. shortstop crouched low on the base path (so the home-plate umpire could see better, she later explained), then leaped in the air as the ball was ruled fair. The Chinese team disputed the call for 10 minutes, to no avail, and the homer provided the winning...