Williams' absence increases the chances of world No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska making a successful defense of her title, which began with the Pole grinding out a 7-, 6-3 win over Yulia Putintseva, a promising 18-year-old wild card entry from Kazakhstan.
Its orbit will leave just a 400km-wide circle at the pole that is out of sight of its instrument.
The same pole was soon cartwheeling out of the ground again as McCullum, promoted up to number three despite his back concerns, also tried to turn one to leg.
Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa are going head-to-head for the world championship and you can bet your bottom Brazilian Real (worth a whole 28p) that both will go all out for pole.
Alonso lost out on pole to Sebastian Vettel at Hockenheim by a scant two-thousandths of a second and the car was, if anything, slightly faster than the Red Bull in the race.
Last year one out of four races was won by the driver starting the race in the pole position, up from one out of 10 earlier this decade.
"The consumer will have a very, very hard time figuring out if it's pole caught, " at a grocery store or restaurant.
The end result was that nobody knew who was on pole and the top 10 drivers got out of their cars and were swapping times to work out who had actually set the hot lap.
Lewis was in good form throughout the weekend and narrowly missed out on a medal in the pole vault after clearing 5.71m.
Following that, the Pole's engine also appeared to blow out as a flash of flames erupted from the back of his car followed by a thick plume of trailing smoke as he approached the Casino corner of the circuit.
Having dropped (back in 1990) a plan to build the world's biggest ice-breaker, the Canadians may also have to seek Russian help next time they need to carve out a path to the North Pole: even the patrol boats ordered up by Mr Harper this month won't match Russia's leviathans.
They ran out of food during their return from the pole and perished.
It seems that Garriott, who has been to the South Pole and the bottom of the ocean, is running out of adventures down here.
If the snow is the right kind (hard and old but not too old), you can dig out a cave or a trench, or even carve out blocks of snow with a ski-pole, machete or a stick.
But it was due also to effective organisation: after the National Electoral Council ruled that the ballot would not show any party symbols, the Patriotic Pole organised a huge voter-education drive, passing out millions of cribsheets telling supporters which of the more than 1, 100 candidates to back.
She also said that the wait to see if she had won the pole was made more agonizing because she had gone to work out as other drivers went one by one, trying to best her top lap.
Mancunian Hatton was pole-axed by a huge left in the second and counted out with one second remaining in the round.
Minor hit a two-run drive inside the left field foul pole off Gee (2-6), connecting after a two-out single by Chris Johnson.
Minnesota barely made solid contact until first baseman Justin Morneau connected with a two-out home run that banged high off the right-field foul pole.
Well, you took piano lessons, finished college, kept your nose clean, worked your way up, climbed the greasy pole, made partner at the firm, and now you're worn out.
This is about the time I would expect to have my luck run out, to have some Foot Knight charge up behind me with a pole-axe and thwack me to death.
We normally wouldn't touch airlines with a ten-foot pole, but the short-term technicals are positive, with the stock breaking higher out of a multi-month base, pulling back on light volume and accelerating higher again.
In the Oceans programme, presenter Lucy Blue is seen hanging out over the end of a small boat with Petri dishes attached to a long pole.
And if things do not work out and Chrysler slides into bankruptcy, Fiat has no liability exposure but would be in pole position to pick up the assets it needs to implement its North American strategy at fire-sale prices.
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.
One tiger shark they caught turned out to have a hook already lodged deep in its stomach, so they used a long pole called a de-hooker to reach inside and remove it, returning the shark to the ocean healthier than it had arrived.
"After so many years in Formula One, now my 17th, I've never got out of the car to go pee twice in the middle of qualifying, " Barrichello, on pole for the 14th time in his career, said of the day's several delays for rain.
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The 23-year-old had led Kamila Chudzik by 171 points going into the seventh and final discipline after placing ninth in the javelin, with the Pole finishing second overall ahead of Germany's Jennifer Oeser, who kept Olympic champion Natallia Dobrynska of Ukraine out of the medals.
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