Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several years Yale backstroke champion Dick Thoman made it his custom to jump into the pool last, before the other swimmers lined up to begin the race. At the start of the 100-yard backstroke on the final day all the swimmers dove in except for Thoman and Don Mulvey, who paced back and forth, neither one looking at the other and neither willing to be the first to go in. Finally Mulvey plunged into the pool, Thoman followed, and the race began. Later in the afternoon the whole procedure was reenacted, with Mulvey outlasting the superstitious Thoman. Mulvey...
...crack of the starter's gun, the six swimmers plunged into the pool-Jimmy McLane just a splash ahead of the rest. For the first length of the 50-meter pool, the six were almost neck & neck. Then, almost imperceptibly, McLane began to draw away. Porpoising along at a steady 35 strokes to a length, he won last week's National A.A.U. 1,500-meter championship by a full length of Yale's Payne Whitney pool. Among the topflight swimmers Jimmy McLane left in his wake were Olympians John Marshall (of Australia and Yale), Peter Duncan...
Moving Day. In El Paso, an entire cinder-block wall, complete with aluminum lettering, was stolen from a city swimming pool...
Last week the radiotelephone that links up MacPherson's headquarters with his drillers in the field crackled out the news that oil was struck at last. MacPherson sped to the drilling site, found that the drills, at 3,500 ft., had bit into an oil pool that looked every bit as rich as the world's richest, the fabulous Burgan sands in Kuwait proper, 20 miles to the north of the Neutral Zone...
Lercaro went to work with social action instead of pious platitudes. When the Pope gave bishops authority to pool and redistribute the income of their clergy, he was one of the few who tried it and made it work. "To everyone, something," he said. "Those who have more should not have so much." In Ravenna, not long after, the Christian Democratic vote doubled and the Communists lost control of the city. Lercaro was promptly posted to Bologna, the biggest Italian city still run by the Reds. Last January he became a cardinal...