Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Huskies will also be tough to beat in the pole vault. Northeastern sophomore Don Heyburn vaulted over 16 feet last year as a freshman and hopes to break 17 feet this year...
...result of the defeated uprisings has left a scar on the national psyche, a kind of ambivalence and fear that endure to this day. "On the one hand," says Social Historian Wiktor Osiatynski, "the Pole applauds the drive for democratic freedoms. On the other hand, not far below the surface roils the thought that previous such efforts for national salvation have ended in catastrophe...
...They should know that we cannot be beaten," said a 30-year-old Pole. "It may take three or five years, but we will be back." That sort of spirit has made it impossible to "beat" the Poles for centuries. But in a way it has also kept the Poles from achieving victory...
...Some Poles went into hiding, moving every night from one place to another. A university professor who lives with a woman in Warsaw was hiking six miles back and forth every day to his own unoccupied house on the outskirts of town to keep the snow shoveled from his sidewalk. "If I don't do it, they'll think I'm hiding, and so they will start looking for me." Intellectuals have been particularly hard hit, arrested by the thousands. Some 40 Warsaw scientists narrowly escaped the roundup when one of them managed to alert a network of taxi drivers...
...carries the same 18,000 discount-priced items. The company's stores and its tall, distinctive signs are always set directly alongside well-traveled highways, near shopping centers or malls. Customers entering the stores are apt to be staggered by the biggest display of toys outside the North Pole: 138 different bicycle models, for example, and 160 dolls displayed in five 12-ft.-high cases...