Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jarrett Romanski died as he climbed out of a Jacuzzi and grabbed a pole attached to a canopy which gave him " a fatal shock," according to a captain at the South Padre Island Police Department...
...romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes a two-week trek to the north magnetic pole, is a modern counterpart of Franklin. Further and sillier, he imagines that Reepah bears some resemblance (or shows some useful contrast) to Franklin's wife Lady Jane...
...Wild Hunt" is another example: One person puts on a set of antlers and we hunt them--ritually. We're symbolically dogs, and he's symbolically a deer. This year, we captured him on the steps of Memorial Church facing Widener, killed him--ritually--and tied him to a pole and walked him across Mass Ave. to Adams House. Luckily, it was Halloween so no one that it was really weird. Well, people thought it was weird, but understandable...
Harvard beat Boston College, 24-4. Twenty-four to four. It doesn't sound like a lacrosse score, it sounds like one of Dan or Dave's pole vaulting records...
...around. Perhaps Matt Boyle '94, seasoned veteran of the Quad, knows. "Well, that's an interesting question," says Boyle. "What most people don't know is that the Q-RAC used to be called the QRALC: Quality Recreation at Low cost. It's kind of like ZEBCO, the fishing pole maker, you know, the Zero Error Bomb Corporation. The Q-RAC used to make bombs in World War II." Edified, I probe deeper...