Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Where are you headed?" one Pole asks another...
...worker saw me dressed up, he'd tip his hat...But if three minutes later he found out I was Jewish, he'd spit on me. I hadn't changed in those three minutes." "If the world changes, we feel it." "On the trolley one day, a Pole told me, 'You see those buildings--they belong to the Jews...There will be a time pretty soon when we will own those buildings...'" This last incident occured in August...
...When the groups of people at which the joke is aimed also are the targets of actual (not merely verbal) forms of discrimination, then it becomes offensive and even painful. If you still do not understand this, I suggest that you ask a woman or a Black or a Pole or a South Boston Irishman to explain...
...over at the pole vault, freshman Gus Spanos racked up the first varsity victory of his career. The event would normally have been forced indoors by the rain, but Yale's Coxe Cage is under renovation. Undaunted, Harvard vaulter Dave Randle took second place, leaving top honors to Spanos...
...field events, Dave Randall continued to reach for pole vault heaven, winning at 14 feet, while Garth Andrade grabbed another first in the javelin with a toss of 197 feet, 7 inches. And in the steeplechase, which combines lots of track and a little swimming. Bruce Weber fought a tough early stretch to run his second fastest time of the year, winning...