Word: pole
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...being featured on a football "bloopers" film, nobody reacted to the ball, until Gordian finally scooped it up and then stood in place for a moment. Still surrounded by several Crimson players, Gordian finally turned towards the Princeton goalline--evoking images of a compass reorienting itself towards the North Pole--and rumbled past and over the beleaguered Lutz and into the end zone...
Yezhov started to deny saying any such thing. Stalin then called Georgi Malenkov, who was at that time in charge of cadres for the Moscow party organization, as his witness, saying now that he was the one who had told him that I was really a Pole. Malenkov too denied he had said anything of the kind. The hunt for Poles had reached the point that Stalin was ready to turn Russians into Poles...
...forcefully that many critics did not bother to read all of Sociobiology, which did not junk free will and environmental influences but only modified them. "On the basis of objective evidence," he wrote, "the truth appears to lie somewhere in between, closer to the environmentalist than to the genetic pole...
...opening day of school in September, Smith, 46, gives his students blank grids and tells them to draw their versions of the globe. These are revealing documents. One student skipped Europe altogether. Another put Antarctica at the North Pole. A third had Asia due north of Europe, while a fourth placed England squarely in Africa. "My first map was a complete disgrace," admits Adrian Nivola. Recalls Tao Nguyen: "I drew a big blob...
...stock price fall 29% since early October, to 14 3/4. Time Warner, which derives 25% of its revenues from cable programming and operations, has endured a share-price decline of 32%, to 95 1/2, during the same period. "I would say the cable industry is at the North Pole now, a point from which all directions are south," says Alan Gottesman, a financial analyst for Paine Webber. Others are less pessimistic. "In the short term, there is a lot of regulatory uncertainty, but over the long term, cable is still a terrific business," contends John Mansell, who follows the industry...