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Word: poole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sangfroid. In San Francisco, Edward Datche, resolutely keeping cool after crashing his automobile into one parked car and careening into another, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette, then flipped it into a pool of gasoline, which flamed and set fire to one of the three vehicles as well as two other cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Intermission entertainment at the Straw Hat Ball Saturday night will include a high board diving team and the singing of the Krokodilos at the pool in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diving Exhibition Scheduled by Key | 4/29/1953 | See Source »

...gods, as well as classes, have been abolished. Just unnecessary nonsense, Blue Cape's educators explain. Doesn't any Blue Caper ever kill another? Frut asks. Why should he? ask the educators. Is it reasonable for a lizard to kill a fellow lizard? Born reasonable, Blue Capers pool their supplies and their work, rarely bother much with personal names since any Blue Caper is by nature and desire much like any other Blue Caper. When Frut begins shuffling into his mating dance for a female Blue Caper, she says, "You don't have to go through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lizard in Limbo | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...Bach lying in a pool of blood on the sidewalk. I thought they were coming back, so I picked him up and carried him over to the ice house on Mount Auburn St.," Fawcett continued...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Street Gang Ruthlessly Beats, Knifes Graduate | 4/25/1953 | See Source »

...blocking traffic, emitting their distinctive cries, and sniffing the heady air of freedom. Dawn-and every subsequent dawn-brought proof that they had not been idle. Greek letters appeared on the municipal water tower, coconuts crashed through windows, a dead shark materialized in the Horizon Hotel's swimming pool, and two students were pinched for swimming in the buff. At 1 :30 on Easter morning a car driven by a boy from Ohio careened into the wrong lane and hit a girl from Missouri and a boy from Delaware. Both died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Visigoths | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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