Then, a small swerve, and the car hit a pylon: a two-second penalty.
At the front of each court was usually a pylon, a pair of broad, flat towers flanking the main gateway.
The planned site was to include an international commemoration wall, sidewalk plaques, a cultural pylon, a seating area, and banners, but construction has not yet begun.
Among his career highlights: Johnson performed CPR on a football, proposed to a cheerleader, used a pylon as a putter and donned a Hall of Fame jacket.
A beautiful and fragile basket star (Astroboa ernae ) shares a pylon with a colony of blue ascidians (Clavelina molluccensis ), sponges, brown and red algae as well as a multitude of other species".
Don't worry if you can't define "cantilever" or distinguish a pylon from a pier.
Jones is six feet four, but not what we beer-league players would call a pylon, as a man his height would have been in the old days.
Also on Friday, saboteurs blew up a pylon supporting a high-voltage line leading from the north-central town of Baiji to Kirkuk, plunging Kirkuk into darkness.
The finalists in a government-sponsored competition to design a new pylon include a single shard spiking into the sky and an arced, open bow (pictured above).
But austerity also implies something strong, unadorned and purposeful, like an electricity pylon or a multi-storey car park.
