Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times, sitting down with three reporters, and claiming that he would never have used Carter documents to help Reagan, whose campaign he directed. "I wouldn't tolerate it," Casey said of the briefing book. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole...
Tourists visiting the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in Florida sometimes discover not only Alligator mississippiensis in the swim. A Homo sapiens named Kent Vliet, 26, may have waded in too. With a cypress pole in hand, the University of Florida doctoral candidate in zoology usually takes the plunge in the late afternoons during the mating season. "In the morning they're a little crotchety and don't want to be bothered," he says...
Every question was double-barreled, aimed at my ever-shrinking cranium. If I got past any of the board land mines, I was forced into pinpointing my ignorance more sharply. Oral exams are verbal pole-vaults: keep making stabs till you fall on your face...
...skin cream in a coffeepot in his Baltimore pharmacy. Originally intended as a sunburn remedy, the blend of clove and eucalyptus oils, lime water, menthol and camphor also proved to be an excellent skin cleanser. In 1929, Admiral Richard Byrd took it along on his expedition to the South Pole. G.I.s during World War II and the Korean War used Noxzema for shaving. Today, when skin-care products are the fastest-growing segment of the cosmetics business, Noxzema is still one of the top-selling facial creams. Noxell has also spun off such Noxzema products as an acne lotion...
...finishers has worked as a dogsled driver in Antarctica. Another has pushed a cab in Tokyo and helped lead a Japanese expedition to the North Pole. One of the younger old salts set a deep-sea diving record off his native France in 1977. An odds-on favorite was a 56-year-old Aussie who was sailing the oceans when some of his rivals were playing with boats in their bathtubs. A competitor from Eastern Europe, a Czech, has written ten books on sea adventure, and applied for political asylum hi the U.S. last August...