Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going the rounds in Germany (and leaking out through Switzerland) was a sour little joke: Question-What is the only secret weapon that can save Germany? Answer-A long pole with a white flag...
...groups which pushed and elbowed with silent, furious concentration in the furnace-like heat. Men & women in the high bleacher seats began dropping children to the ground, then jumped themselves. Then great blazing patches of canvas fell. Women screamed as their hair and dresses caught fire. Then a tent pole toppled soundlessly, trailed by burning canvas. People were still struggling down from their seats...
...losses are compensated somewhat by the acquisition of some very promising new material. A newcomer to the Harvard V-12 unit, but nevertheless an eligible man for competition this summer is Bill Murray, champion javelin thrower from Holy Cross. Also in the V-12 is Walter Harwood, a pole vaulter from Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Robert E. Peary, who nailed the college banner beside the U.S. flag at the North Pole...
Many reports of hosts of women snipers boiled down to two concrete cases. One was a 29-year-old Pole called Myra, who was reported to have lured soldiers into smiling range of her revolver. Another was identified as Audette Chraud, a Frenchwoman who potted Allied troops from her bedroom window. Villagers explained that she had been their leading collaborationist and a frequent entertainer of German officers. Both were taken to England, the Frenchwoman wounded...