Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paid their fees, however, the trouble started. They say Roblan began evading their phone calls and later reneged on the promises made by the phone-sales staff. Only Roy got a job offer -- which he figured would pay him $5 an hour after expenses -- to work at the North Pole. Repeated demands for a refund went unanswered. "I feel like a stupid idiot," says Roy. "When somebody tells you to get ready and go in a month, you start tying up loose ends...
...public policy? She can't be. Mere mortal heroes don't have much staying power in Washington. Superman didn't have to worry about Congress, or about public opinion. Superman wasn't subject to popularity polls. After skirmishes with Members of Congress, Superman could fly off to the North Pole to cool off. He wouldn't have to face Lex Luthor at Washington dinner parties...
Wyatt and Susan sometimes sound as if they were born and raised in a Garrison Keillor monologue about quirky loners and appealing blasphemers. Aunt Ellen's Scripture-in-progress posits a God that is neither loving nor vengeful, only curious. "You might as well pray to a telephone pole," she says. "I mean, if God loved us, we would know it, wouldn...
...behind you. The chair wallops you on the back of the knees, hard, and you plop down in a cold puddle of slushy water. You're scooped up off the ground, and you reach to pull down the guard rail. You drop a mitten, then you drop your ski pole. The mitten and the pole land in a stream which runs through a steep, roped-off area...
Harvard faces Colby today and Bowdoin tomorrow, and though Maine isn't the North Pole, the Crimson certainly hopes the jolly old fat man hasn't forgot about it. Two wins would fit oh so nicely in the Crimson's holiday stocking...