Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears from the dressing area sporting some loose-limbed Kenzo tunic or, perhaps, a Calvin Klein dress that might, with the single addition of a center support pole, provide all-weather protection on an overnight hike...
During his doomed dash to the South Pole in 1912, British Explorer Robert Falcon Scott was right enough when he called it this "awful place." But Antarctica, half again as large as the continental U.S., is also a world of spectacular beauty. Beyond its great central plateau, where the ice is more than two miles thick, are towering mountains, volcanoes, and glaciers as big as Rhode Island that creep inexorably toward the sea at rates up to two miles a year. There are even curious, snow-free "dry valleys" where the winds have sculpted the rocks into a phantasmagoria...
...wasn't especially fast or big so I narrowed the events in which I could participate to three: the high jump, the javelin, and the pole vault," Spanos said. "I thought it [pole valuting] looked ridiculous but one of my friends was doing it, so I gave it a shot. Seven feet was the first height I cleared. It seemed like a mile...
...Pole breaking provides another worry. "When I was a sophomore in high school, at a California Invitational meet, one vaulter was in mid-air and upside down when his pole broke. The kid landed on his head right on the concrete where you place your pole," Spanos recalled...
...Catch-22 is that in order to vault to greater heights you must take a chance--move your hand a bit lower on the pole, or speed up your approach--but too much doring can be fatal. It's that dynamic tension of risk and cautiousness that every vaulter strives...