Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version of what he fled. Though his business manager gives him only $20 a week, Backus expects to earn $125,000 this year. The towels in his Hollywood house are embossed Senor and Senora, his party guests love the lampshade act, and year-round his wife keeps the swimming pool at a decadent 89°. "On cold winter nights," says he, "the steam rising from it causes the place to look like the set of Wuthering Heights...
...businessmen, and the politicians. Military and businessmen partake of the "military metaphysic" for reasons of self-interest, claims Mills, for the politicians, it "provides a cover under which they can abdicate the perils of innovative leadership; it provides a cover for their use of military bureaucrats--the only large pool of professional civil servants available...
...fortnight ago, relaxing in his book-lined library overlooking the swimming pool, López Mateos summed up the problem as he sees it: "Mexico must create national wealth from capital to make jobs for an additional 1,000,000 Mexicans a year. Mexican capital alone-private and government-has not been able to develop our potential. With the help of outside capital, perhaps this can be achieved...
...works either at home or, in good weather, in a tent set up in the park outside. Once a heavy smoker (50 or more British 555s a day), he now, on doctor's orders, confines himself to a pack a day, keeps fit by swimming in a luxurious pool in the Imperial City. For relaxation he writes classical Chinese poetry-a pastime his regime is otherwise discouraging by switching Chinese from their traditional ideographs to a Romanized alphabet...
...with half pay.) Even the old folks, for whom the commune has established "Happy Homes," are kept busy with scheduled chores, such as feeding the chickens. And in at least one Kwangtung commune, when the inhabitants of the Happy Homes die, their bodies are dropped into a chemically treated pool and converted to fertilizer...