Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said his last word for the time being on the subject (of McCarthyism), President Eisenhower declared flatly. He answered questions on Indo-China (no decision on intervention) and on his proposed peacetime atomic pool (no hope of Soviet acceptance). Asked about a charge that Democrats were riding on his coattails, the President laughed: You don't know, just trying to ride someone else's coattail, where you are going...
...popularity continues to grow. This year he expects to gross almost $1,000,000. He now lives in a $75,000 San Fernando Valley house with a piano-shaped swimming pool. Men who work with him find, somewhat to their surprise, that they like him as a nice, friendly, unassuming fellow. From the women, there is scarcely any dissent. After his triumphal show at Madison Square Garden last week, the fans stormed his dressing room. He stayed till 2 a.m., signing autographs...
...Isherwood's prose still has the crisp grace of a good tennis match. He is an exterior decorator of chic and competence, whether the setting is Athens, the Alps, or the South of France. But by now he has splashed all the water out of his stagnant, neurotic pool and seems more and more like his hero-a high-and-dry orphan of the Saxophone...
...along the Thames-side and along the south coast of England from Cornwall to Kent the night and day before, other eager millions had clustered, to follow the course of Her Majesty's yacht Britannia. As it steamed slowly toward the Pool of London, it was escorted by warships of the Royal Navy and the greatest flotilla of private craft since Britain's yachtsmen set forth in a body to rescue the British forces on the beach at Dunkirk. Some fresh from their beds in pajamas and trenchcoats, others stiff with long waiting, the observers on shore pinched...
...show those who face us in battle,' they said. 'We'll show the enemy. And we'll show them in Hanoi. We'll show them in Saigon, the people busy sipping cool drinks on shaded café terraces or watching beautiful girls in the pool at the Sporting Club. We'll show the people of France, the people of France above all. They have to be shown. They have to be shown what their neglect, their incredible indifference, their illusions, their dirty politics have led to. And how best may we show them...