Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Immediately after the Columbine slaughter, teen Christian groups gathered spontaneously on their campuses. Some headed reflexively for school flagpoles, as they had back in September while participating in the massive exercise in evangelical solidarity called See You at the Pole. Rallies planned for other purposes morphed into Littleton remembrances. At a long-planned April 24 jamboree by Teen Mania in Pontiac, Mich., speaker after speaker preached to a throng of 73,000 on Cassie's life and death (she once attended a Teen Mania meeting), and thousands signed an enormous condolence card. The same thing happened all over...
Also competing at George Mason will be sophomore Brenda Johnston in hurdles, sophomore John Kraay in shot put, sophomore Mary Unsworth in the 1500m, and freshman Aaron Snead in pole vault...
Other Crimson runner competing this weekend include junior Dave Martin and senior Scott Muoio in the 3000, junior Caroline Johnston in the hammer throw, sophomore Brenda Johnston in hurdles, sophomore John Kraay in shot put, sophomore Mary Unsworth in the 1500m, and freshman Aaron Snead in pole vault...
...story has assumed mythic proportions, like the sinking of the Titanic or Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. Shortly after noon on June 8, 1924, the 38-year-old English schoolmaster and Alpinist George Leigh Mallory, along with a young companion, an Oxford engineering student and oarsman named Andrew ("Sandy") Irvine, 22, vanished into the mists surrounding the summit of 29,028-ft. Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, never to be heard from again...
...batters later, Carey stepped to the plate and drove a line drive home run down the left field line. The ball, still rising as it cleared the fence, curved inside the foul pole and staked the Crimson to a 2-1 lead...