Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formulate, as a principle of collective action, certain fundamental dispositions of human nature. As such, it inherits a tradition unmatched by any other po litical principle; yet it is not the only principle, the only tenable position, and nothing is gained by speaking as if it were." Compensating Pole. The other "tenable position," says Author Orton, is conserva tism. In it he sees the compensating pole of western civilized thought and conduct - indeed, "together these principles reflect the polarity of life itself, of all phenome nal existence. Force and inertia, action and reaction, change and stability, the dynamic...
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, back from a tour of bombed Jap cities, pined for more distant latitudes: "The thing I'd like to do most is go back to the South Pole...
...night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul...
Bernt Balchen, 45, beefy, blue-eyed, Norwegian-born pilot who flew Admiral Byrd over the South Pole in 1929 and has logged a record mileage over polar regions, received the Legion of Merit for his aid, last year, in evacuating 2,000 Norwegians from Sweden by air, and for parachuting supplies and espionage agents to the European underground...
...opposite pole was Notre Dame, whose loud moans indicated that Irish luck had run thin. The year's top job-switchers, Coaches Ed McKeever (Notre Dame to Cornell) and Carl Snavely (Cornell to North Carolina) also sang a sad song-"Not this year"-but both managed to squeeze through their openers...