Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rain-soaked track at Azusa Pacific University outside Los Angeles to film a hastily rewritten Reebok shoe ad. As they waited for the cameras to roll, their conversation remained on emotionally safe subjects like new golf clubs. There was no discussion of O'Brien's memorable miss in the pole vault at the U.S. Olympic trials a fortnight earlier, which had unexpectedly eliminated him from the Barcelona competition, or of Johnson's record-setting performance, which had dramatically turned him into the odds-on favorite for the gold...
...eight hours to cross on foot and is impassable much of the year. We use a pirogue that Kuroda's team has built to resupply his tiny station. Parched by the precarious walk to this point, we cool ourselves with the absolutely pure waters of the Ndoki as we pole through the river grass. Fay thinks he knows why the Pygmies have historically kept to the west side of the river. With ample game in the more accessible forests, they have had no need to risk a crossing. At this point, though, I am not thinking of hardship but rather...
Much closer to the Square and a decisive stepdown the ice cream totem pole is Baskin Robbins, anational chain. The narrow Mass Ave. store andsparse selection of tables doesn't lend itself tositting down, but its prices--$1.43 for a singlescoop, $2.38 for a double--are among the lowest inthe Square proper...
...legal steps is completed, the new 772,000-sq.-mi. territory, to be called Nunavut, will become a national home for the Eskimo -- or Inuit -- of the country's eastern Arctic. It will encompass a huge area of mainland and islands stretching from Manitoba almost to the North Pole that is thought to be rich in oil and minerals...
...North Pole event illustrates another aspect of Counter's character: Whether he's bringing a celebrity to campus or filming tribes in the South America, counter does things with flair. The man has a penchant for publicity...