Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LIES in peaceful quiet sleep, A vision came unbidden to his head: He saw the birds that fly, the beasts that creep, He saw the teeming living and the dead. Surveying all, he looked first to the north And at the pole, he caught sight of a gleam; A Cadillac in chrome was riding forth, Pulled by a twelve-man transition team. "What can this mean?" asks Bok of his stern guide, Who answers thus in Slavic-sounding voice: "This year a new man takes the Yuletide ride, Delivering gifts to rich and poor--rejoice!" Bok looks puzzled, turns...
Coach McCurdy was equally impressed by several other improved performances. Sophomore Alec Quintero upped his personal best in the 35-lb. weight throw by three feet. And Greg Froehlich cleared 13 ft. 6 in. to capture his first varsity pole vaulting...
...later, on November 9, she started work at the department in Lexington, where she logs two ten-hour days and two 14-hour nights every eight days. She answers both fire and ambulance calls, and sometimes manages to sleep in bunkrooms at the station. ("There really is a brass pole-the bell rings and you jump up and find your shoes, if it's the ambulance, or slide down in socks and get into big boots, if it's the truck...
...suburbs. One minute you are driving past huge bank buildings and small noodle stands and city-style corrugated steel-vegetable markets and the next minute you look out the window and there is only the emerald green of rice paddies, a farmer leveling a flooded field with a pole pulled horizontally behind...
...served by a different star. Gilda Radner is referred to as a waif, and tries to mimic scatterbrained vulnerability; but it does not wash. She radiates tensile strength. If she were crossing the Arctic wastes and her Huskies died, she could and would tow the dog sled to the Pole. That invincible force happens to be wrong for this play...