Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other events, Tom Schuler will join Alec Quintero in the 35-lb. weight throw and will be tossing the shot put with co-captain Lanny Tron and junior Peter Rittenburg, while co-captain Dave Randall, now ailing with an injured knee, will be returning to pole vault. Freshmen should play a large role in the hurdles with the addition of Steve Ezeji-Okoye and Jim Herberich to aid veteran Kimbro Stephens...
...Delcaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen on his wall. In the street below, the crowd is rioting; he ignores it. Suddenly, an anguished face passes along the level of his balcony. He rushes to see what has happened: The head is impaled on a pole. The throngs flow under him and the head moves on. He returns to his desk. His eyes see something we cannot--the anguish of France. But we see his tears, and we understand...
...pink images. Exuberance at surviving the horror strips the victims of social convention. Prudence gives way to prurience. Bodies flow across the screen, men indistinguishable from women, limbs distorted in ecstasy. Yet, the pink tinting and writhing limbs make these survivors somewhat less human than the head on a pole that we believed to be still the part of a whole. This unwholesome rapture has none of the humanity of the earlier image. How better to seize the inhumanity of the declining Revolution than in these disembodied limbs, leaping to a rhythm that pulses in their veins...
Here the answer is relatively simple. How can a Western observer know better than a Pole what the Soviets are up to? All the past of Polish-Soviet relations is marked by violence and treason from the Soviet side. Of course, the official historiography keeps its mouth shut about that. But Polish people remember very well the massacre in Katyn forest, the deportations to Siberia, the betrayed Warsaw Uprising, the means by which Communist rule has been imposed on Poland since 1944. And they also remember three examples of Soviet "brotherly help": Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan...
Pharmacists have long languished near the bottom of the medical totem pole, contemptuously referred to by doctors and nurses as pill counters. But the term may no longer be justified. As the number of drugs has multiplied and human reactions to them have become more varied, pharmacists are beginning to assume a more important role, counseling patients on medication, monitoring drug therapy and sometimes even prescribing drugs...