Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Misfire. In late May they moved on Khartoum once again, with four scout cars, lights dimmed, leading three companies in full battle dress. But this time their coup misfired. A motor-pool major refused to lend his trucks to the cause. Sensing defeat, Moheiddin at 2 a.m. left Khartoum hoping to turn back the advancing troops, but could not find them. By then, news of the plot had gotten out. Easygoing General Abboud had had enough, arrested 18 officers...
President Pool thinks his company has grown so fast partly because it is in an industry of giants. Says he: "Small companies have the advantage of being fast moving-by the time the big companies make up their minds that they want to do battle, the little company has already...
...from the backyard by setting his retreat on steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete roof was meant to be both elegant and playful. During a rainstorm the extended roof-beam "gargoyle" rainspouts will channel water into the pool in a miniature cascade that any 18th century fancier of gazebos or octagonal summerhouses would have applauded...
...closest 51-year-old William Nickerson gets to dirt these days is gardening at his spacious $75,000 estate at Alamo, Calif. After a quarter-century of pyramiding debts, he enjoys European travel, tennis, a dip in his swimming pool and telling his fellow-Americans how to make a million dollars the easy way. He makes it sound wonderfully plausible...
...little monsters were to breed, perhaps with the four-headed puns of Peter (The Tunnel of Love) De Vries, the printed word might never be the same. Still, considering the general run of summer fiction, Wallach's fable is funny enough. He tells of a soulful young swimming-pool salesman who leaves Manhattan because "inside stuffy little apartments a million parakeets mess up their cages and refuse to say an intelligent word"-a conception subtle with the flavor of Zen-Zen, the West Coast's cultural mouthwash. In California, the hero sells pools frantically, working toward that aqueous...