Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist Richard Condon's Prizzi family...
Triple jump--1. Pladel (N) 14, 13, 2. Cus Udo (H) 14 13, 3. Hartman (N) 14.11. Pole vault--1. Heyburn (N) 15-6; 2. Hutchinson (N) 15-0; 3. Dave Randall (H) 14-6. High Jump--1. Julian (N) 6-10; 2. Hopkins (N) 6-8; 3. Jim Gregory (H) 6-4. 400m relay--1. HARVARD 41.7 (Hudson, Jones, Midlo, Midlo); 2. Northeastern 43.1. 110m high hurdles--1. Calderone (N) 14.4; 2. Steve Ezeji-Okoye (H) 14.4; 3. Quitzau...
Hammer--1. robinson (B) 52.24m:2. Jurkoic (D); 3. Quintero (H). Pole Vault--1. Light (D) 15-ft. 5-in; 2. Beavers (B); 3. Randall (H). Long Jump--1. Johnson (H), 6.68m; 2. Henry (H); 3. Udo (H). Triple jump--1. Henry (H) 14.50m; 2. Udo (H), 3. Hall (H). javelin--1. Cooper (D) 60.77m; 2. Fox (D). 3. Bower (H). Shot Put--1. Bpgdonovich (B) 15.82m; 2. Pet (D): 3. Jones (D). High Jump--Keefe (D) 6-ft 6-in; 2. Van Zandt (D) and Wirth...
THOUGH HARRIS underutilized her own voice in some poems, it stretches to encompass worlds in Harris's later "Chants," which she places, curiously enough, toward the beginning of the book. In "Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven," a voice takes over wolf's claws, fish's skin, and other natural powers, becoming everything. Harris's chants are prayers, exciting and meant to be read aloud. Her words are weapons in a struggle against the conventions of the city and the "second language" of urbanites...
...company is trying to launch the Grandson of Hoop. At New York City's annual toy fair last month, Miss U.S.A., Kim Seelbrede, was on display whirling the 1982 model, known as the Peppermint Hula Hoop, because it bears barber-pole stripes and is peppermint scented. In coming weeks the hoop will be featured in an episode of the television comedy-adventure The Dukes of Hazzard, and paraded in Daytona Beach, Fla., at an olympiad of hoop-based sporting events during the spring break for college students...