Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fields it can cover efficiently. Reporters concentrate on Capitol Hill, the White House, State Department and Pentagon. They look in on most of the other departments only when there is news breaking, make little effort to dig it up. Competition, in many cases, has given way to the "pool," where all reporters share & share alike, or to cliques that work for the defeat of outsiders...
Blue Law. In Portland, Tenn., the city council prohibited cops on duty from shooting pool or playing pinball machines...
...Lassetter aboard a big Dakota transport usually reserved for the private use of Britain's Japanese occupation commander, Lieut. General Sir Horace Robertson.That night she landed at a military airfield in southern Japan. She spent the following day hiding out in a poolroom. "I think you call it pool," she explained later. "Anyway, where they hit something with a stick...
...Some nations which have shouted the loudest at the U.S. grab for raw materials have stalled the conference while they did some grabbing of their own. The wool committee has been deadlocked for weeks because Australia, which produces more than 25% of the world's wool, will not pool its wool and sacrifice the fancy prices it has been getting at auction. There are other complications. Britain is still shipping such strategic items as electrical and generating machinery to Russia in return for badly needed timber, oats and barley...
...mile walk at his brisk 120-pace-a-minute stride, and chided newsmen who fell behind. At night, he and his staff, including Administrative Assistant Donald Dawson (the man with the way in the old RFC), played "poverty" poker. Each man put up $100, could draw from the pool if he ran through that. Quarterdeck conversation frequently turned toward the President's favorite subject-U.S. history. Harry Truman got the biggest "yuck" out of telling the boys about one of Benjamin Franklin's scatological inventions...