Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mike Ford, record-smashing pole vaulter, had a tough afternoon. On his first trial jump, he twisted his ankle, as he fell, and thought he was out for the next two weeks. Although he later discovered that he was safe from the bench, he proceeded to smash his favorite pole on another trial...
...Pole Vault--Won by Lon Wright. Second, John Lester, Third tie between Steve Brooks and Alex Rogerson...
...Mandalay last week a correspondent recalled a characteristic crack made by Lieut. General Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Stilwell, who now commands U.S. and Chinese forces in Burma. Said Uncle Joe: "The higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see of his backside." Uncle Joe said that many months ago. As the Jap climbed up the Burma pole last week, he saw much more of the Allies' backsides than they...
There is always the chance that the Nazis will beat them to the deadline. If a Pole is caught editing, printing or even so much as possessing one of the newspapers, he is rushed to the executioner. Yet Poland's underground press, according to exiled Polish Government estimates, regularly publishes more than 100 newspapers, with a total hand-to-hand circulation of 3,000,000, or one-sixth of the population of Occupied Poland...
Frying Pan, Fire. In Dunkirk, N.Y., a driver smashed his car into a roadside pole, crawled out uninjured, brushed against a dangling high-tension wire, was electrocuted...