Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelf above the mirror. Then he would hang up his straw hat and suit coat and raise his window shades. After that he would put on his barber coat, and, finally, he would step outside his shop with the key for winding up his spring-driven barber pole motor. When the twisted red, white and blue stripes began spiraling their way to infinity (a kid could watch those stripes coming down from the top of the pole and disappearing into the bottom of the pole for a good stretch of time without figuring out where they went), you knew...
...those spring-wound models are old stuff, and William Marvy, who operates the last barber-pole factory in the U.S., is not impressed. When one of those clockwork barber poles comes into his shop in St. Paul for repairs, he sends it back electrified. Marvy, 70, has been in the business for 55 years, and he has been up to date every step of the way. This up-to-dateness is itself a kind of spring-wound relic: the breezy, bet-on-the-future confidence of a Midwestern traveling salesman from a half-century...
...into his order book, he would make the big try. "Now, you're an intelligent man," he would admit to the proprietor, "and you might say dollars don't come easy, and why should I spend mine on one of these new, illuminated, revolving, high-visibility barber poles? And you'd be absolutely right; everyone knows where your shop is. But sometimes a reminder will make a man buy before he really needs to. For instance, you might be walking down the street without any idea of being thirsty, and suddenly you see a sign that says...
Junior Dave Randall rounded out Harvard's victories in the fiendevents as he flew through the high winds to capture first place in the pole vault. Randall cleared 14 ft. 6 in. by a wide margin, obliterating his own personal record of 14 ft. 1 in. He narrowly missed an attempt...
...born there. I know the trees, I know the streets, I know everybody, and I always think that my grave should be next to my mother's and father's. I live like a king, but Palestine belongs to me. What is Begin? He's a Pole...