Word: poling
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Five more toasts followed, concluding with the wish "May peace, liberty and order extend from pole to pole." Then the revelers went off into the night with only the faintest notion of what they had planted--the beginnings of an institution that would be the heartbeat of the greatest, most powerful and enduring democracy on Earth...
...evening, 112,574 Australians and their guests watched as American Michael Johnson embarrassed the field at 400 m, becoming the first man ever to win that event in back-to-back Olympics; as American Stacy Dragila bested a bevy of blonds to win the first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race by a quarter of a second; and as Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie nipped Kenyan Paul Tergat at the wire in an even more exciting...
...Which would be last Monday night, maybe the greatest night in track history. I know what you're thinking, honey, but trust me, I'm not saying this because of all the blondes in the pole vault. By the time I started noticing, only one of them was left, Tatiana Grigorieva, the Australian ?migr?e from Russia. It was down to her against our Stacy Draglia. Tatiana was interesting: She's only been here for a year, only vaulting for three. Maybe she thought she was still a Russian, because she barely noticed that the crowd was going crazy...
Chabon's facts and fabrications are mutually supporting. At least until Joe Kavalier, itching to get into the war and kill Nazis, ends up as a U.S. Navy radioman who escapes the South Pole in a homemade plane whose wings and fuselage are covered with the skins of dozens of seals and one beloved...
...current condition of patches of open water near the North Pole is not a new one caused by man-made influences or by this generation. Historical evidence documents the presence of crops in Greenland for a few centuries after it was settled by the Vikings, a millennium ago. These atmospheric climate changes occur naturally. The sky isn't falling, and we aren't permanently melting the polar ice. LOREN D. HAMLIN Tucson, Ariz...