Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks on the CBS network, Professor Baxter became a real celebrity and admits that he has enjoyed every minute of it. He turns up at movie premiéres and Hollywood cocktail parties, gets invited to the Library of Congress to give poetry readings, has built a swimming pool at his South Pasadena home, and relishes reading about himself in the gossip columns. Best of all, he is now financially able to relax during his vacations, instead of teaching at night school or summer school to make ends meet...
After Saturday midnight, voting began. Five amendments, designed variously to defer ratification until after an attempt at a disarmament pact with Russia, until the allies agreed on the arms pool, until France received "new guarantees" from its allies, were defeated by comfortable margins. Finally the Senate voted the accords themselves. The vote on the key WEU pact was 184-110, the others even more decisive...
...lung. Inside its cylinder the lung was kept supplied with fresh oxygen. As the boy's blood coursed through the lung tissue, it gave up carbon dioxide and picked up fresh oxygen. Then it fell to the bottom of the cylinder. From the pool that formed there, another tube led the blood to a pump which boosted it back to Patient Richmond's aorta-the great artery in his chest...
Calvin Richmond was hooked up with the dead dog's lung for 20 minutes. The surgeons spent 15 of these performing delicate repair work inside the heart, which would have been impossible if they had been operating in a surging pool of blood...
...blacktopped, then a curb was added-and then the whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought a $150,000 yacht, used it as an office...