• Like the pole-climbing exercise, it's about executing a task that feels impossible but isn't.

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  • The rope is wrapped around something like a pole, leaving two equal lengths.

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  • One of her minders pushes back a sound man, who returns the threat, wielding his microphone pole like a pike.

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  • Statistics are like a light pole for a drunk.

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  • Then she grabs two ski-pole-like handles, presses a button and waits as beams of light trace over her body.

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  • In the new procedure, the valve is created by inserting a surgical device that looks like a toy fishing pole into the mouth and snaking it down the throat to where the esophagus meets the stomach.

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  • We are governed by a pile of institutions sitting on top of each other, like faces in a totem pole .

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  • People who drink chili out of Denver Bronco cup-holders and pray to Dustin Pedroia Fatheads suddenly become absorbed in tiny Olympic events like shooting and curling and pole-vaulting, despite knowing almost nothing about shooting and curling and pole-vaulting.

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  • Julian drove into town and bought an electric heater, but under the fifteen-foot ceilings the device was like a spark at the North Pole.

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  • When they got to the chaise longue, Arianda spent a long time playing with the heavy piece of furniture, at first leaning against it like a cat on a scratching pole, then kicking and pushing the cumbersome prop until it was properly angled.

    NEWYORKER: The Natural

  • "I think you have to look at someone like, maybe Michael, getting the pole position, " Hembery told F1's official website.

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  • My guide, Boikago Wandumbi, paddled he and I out, standing in the back of the canoe like a Venetian gondolier, using a long pole to propel us forward.

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  • Whenever a celebrity dons a feather and long braids for a photo shoot, or a fashion brand releases a gaudy collection of "totem pole print" tracksuits, bloggers like Metcalfe and Keene are slammed with questions about why they're offensive.

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  • And, at a few spots around the moon's south pole, the reflections did indeed look like the sorts of echoes that would come from ice.

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  • To be sure, this is hardly an apples-to-apples comparison, but the basic problem with a stock like Facebook is that the New Economy is a greasy pole and few players remain dominant for long.

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  • At one point, he tried to call the Poxley volunteer fire department, but the creosote pole that supported the telephone wire had already gone up like a torch, taking his service away.

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  • With each failed bid, Qwest is reminding the world that MCI doesn't take it seriously, and that respected executives like Capellas don't want to touch the company with a ten-foot pole.

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  • But just as I made my way around the pole nearest to her seat, she looked up at me, jumped up like Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and ran off the car.

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  • South African-born Kate Dennison looks like she should still be at school, but the 24-year-old has been a pole vaulting revelation, breaking the British record for the second time in a week on Saturday.

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