Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand.* The International Olympic Committee met in Moscow's House of Unions for four days before the opening ceremonies, and members spent much of the time debating the boycott. The meetings also produced a flap over the American flag. I.O.C. officials want to run it up the pole at the Games' conclusion, as protocol dictates, to signify the U.S. as the site of the 1984 Olympiad. White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler last week sent the I.O.C. a letter objecting to that plan, but the committee plans to stand fast. Meanwhile, the local organizers of the 1984 Los Angeles...
...astonishing thing about Russian art of this period is its sustained inventiveness. Artists who based their work on the available prewar styles of avant-garde art - mainly Fauvism, cubism and futurism -were able to digest and develop them with tremendous speed and urgency, leaping beyond their prototypes like pole vaulters. To see this at work, one need only look at the development of Vladimir Tallin's sculpture after his first contact with Picasso's tin cubist Guitar, 1912, in Paris, or at the conviction with which Kasimir Malevich moved from cubism to a purely abstract painting...
...horizontal axis to capture the prevailing winds. In the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, retired Businessman Percy Newbery, 58, is generating an average of $30 worth of electricity per month by means of a windmill device that looks like a jet engine and sits on a 75-ft. wooden pole beside his house. In Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island and Ohio, industrial-size wind generators are operating under Government testing programs...
Harvard had opened a gap of a few feet by the half-mile mark, only to watch the South African crew pull even and then slightly ahead by the three-quarter mile pole. Harvard rallied late in the race, but couldn't catch the South Africans...
...would the U.S. team have fared in Moscow? Predictions have a way of coming apart as runners stumble, discus throwers suffer slipped discs, and pole vaulters cannot rise to the occasion. But there seems little doubt that the U.S. would have continued its domination of men's track events as well as taking several medals in the long jump, discus, shot-put and pole vault. American women rank among the world's fastest in the sprints, but a hamstring injury to Pan Am Games Champion Evelyn Ashford undermined U.S. hopes. Eastern Europeans would, as always, have car ried...