Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's all this "scandal" fussing about? Bribery has been a common (and timehonored) practice as far back as Marco Polo and even before that. I find it surprising that Americans still cling to illusions of innocence after the years of Viet Nam, Watergate and intelligence investigations. Won't this country ever grow up and realize there is rottenness in the world...
...Here a platoon of gardeners work on the acres of forest and expenses of green lawn. Most of the entrances are patrolled by security guards. Dotting the landscape are small ponds and lakes, athletic facilities which include a domed tennis building with more than 25 courts, a hockey rink, polo field and colliseum-like football field. One of the small groves hides a Greek amphitheater. Beautiful pieces of sculpture rest undisturbed on the lawns. The buildings are low and beautiful, with copper roofs and leaded windows...
Writers often lose a character for a while or injure him for plot purposes or to test popularity. Last spring Millionaire Mack Corey, the indulgent husband of Rachel on Another World, was injured in a polo match and temporarily paralyzed from the waist down so his wife would be tempted to fool around. A similar ploy was used by Bell on The Young and the Restless. When Jennifer Brooks went off with a lover, she went out of focus. Says Bell: "I knew I had to pull back. How more dramatically than to put her on center stage?" Jennifer left...
...Stade's departure at the end of the academic year will close a 35-year Harvard career that began in the early 30s with von Stade's arrival as a polo-playing freshman straight out of St. Paul's, the son of a famed horseman and grandson of a lawyer for financier J.P. Morgan...
...said, "I feel like a real jock. I could never picture myself devoting so much of my life to a sport, but it's great. Knowing that physically I can do the workouts and turn in the times is really satisfying." Murphy is also on the Radcliffe water polo team and Eliot House crew...