Word: poles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guards to relax the caution of long experience. The office car, the two tape recorders Clark was carrying, everything got a thorough going-over. In a search for hidden bombs or bombers, one guard even poked under the chassis with a mirror fixed to the end of a long pole...
Lack of depth will be the main problem in the jumping events and pole vault. Noel Hare is the only healthy broad jumper, while Pete Lazarus and Jim Coleman face the same situation in the vault and high jump. If Johnson overcomes his injuries, he will be the top contender in the triple jump...
...Randy Darwell's set that makes the play even before the first note of the prelude--the Beatles' "Penny Lane"--is sounded. The floor, whose dullest color is a flaming chartreuse, said "festival" right off. Near a balcony projects a lovely pole, with feathers atop, that the actors use for quick descents. The rest is a complicated arrangement of stairs and levels over which the cast runs riot...
...procession has moved down from the porch and turned into the yard to the sound of the carillon. Two businesslike men, who walk in front, ask the young comrades to make way a little. Three paces behind them an elderly processional personage, something like a verger, carries a pole topped by a heavy cut-glass lantern with a candle inside. He glances apprehensively up at the lantern, anxious to keep it steady, and as apprehensively from side to side. This-this is the picture I would paint if I knew how! What does the verger fear? That the builders...
...suspicion and resentment. One of our students declared himself unable to think of Harvard as a community of scholars and students. "It is a hierarchy," he said, "and this is the source of our graduate student problems. I feel that we are on the low end of the totem pole." He saw as a regrettable symbol of this hierarchy the fact that all members of this committee were senior professors. For many, the mere fact of hierarchy was annoying. In addition, it was seen as interfering with the open relations and personal interest that were so much desired...