Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world, all right. It spins between those who refuse to see the bomb and those who can almost taste it. When suddenly a noise erupts in Baghdad, both heads turn, one envisaging a burst of glory and the other trying to decide where one crawls from here...
...balance may be the ninth seaf and Wylie's reelection chances. The low man on the CCA totem pole in 1979. Wylie is cast as a likely fifth-finisher among state liberals this time around, although even if the CCA gains the seat, he may have to fight Abt and Preusser for its possession...
...things that have nothing to do with truth, justice, or the American way. Superman II is more than just another adventure for our favorite hero. In addition to saving the planet, and perhaps the universe, he confronts his own past, throws a dinner party for two at his North Pole bungalow, and--horrors!--exposes himself in more ways than one to Lois Lane. Superman has passed through intergalactic puberty. The Caped Wonder has come...
Evil abounds in the world evoked by Ginzburg. The Kolyma region where she was ultimately imprisoned was the largest and most terrible of the Stalin-era concentration-camp complexes, stretching a thousand miles from the Arctic Ocean to the Sea of Okhotsk. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has called Kolyma "the pole of cold and cruelty." It was a place of massacre, where 3 million died, the men digging for gold under the permafrost, the women felling trees at temperatures of -56° F. Young men dispatched to the mines quickly succumbed to tuberculosis. Ginzburg, who acted for a time as a medical...
...exercise rider set him down on the rail, and Summing began to run. Railbirds could not believe their eyes, and the track's dockers stared at their watches in amazement. The bay colt pounded through the mist at a sizzling pace, and when he flashed past the mile pole Summing had set a new training track record, 1 min. 374/5 sec. Four days later, Summing proved that his startling workout was no fluke. He won the Belmont Stakes in convincing style to crush the Triple Crown hopes of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Winner Pleasant Colony, who finished third. Instead...