Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Negroes, angered to recklessness by the Faubus action, egged the parents on. Result: six Negro pupils tried to go to school. They ran up against a pack of pool-hall bums led by a beefy, red-faced man who stood with arms folded across his chest and grandly proclaimed: "They shall not pass." Pushed and shoved away, the Negroes did not pass...
...Without casual spectators around, but with 20 stop-watch-clicking officials timing his every stroke, Buffalo's George Breen boiled through the water of Yale's 50-meter practice pool and broke his own world record for the mile (19:40.4) with a fast...
They planned one day to meet on a palm-shaded lanai in sight of the swimming pool and then, to avoid nosy newsmen, switched with their retinue (five lawyers), like French-farce husbands, from the Atwater Kent Suite to the Mary Martin Suite to the parquet-floored Terrace Room. They looked and acted like directors of General Motors come to dream about new models, but they were the General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters trying to work their way out of trouble...
...English-Southern accent, her silver-haired good looks, and her lavish parties, Mrs. Janet R. Gray was one of Atlanta's most popular hostesses. At her ranch-style home on 15 wooded acres in suburban Doraville, the charming divorcee entertained scores of Atlantans at parties beside her swimming pool hard by the circular exercise track for her show horses. She made friends everywhere. On regular visits to the beauty parlor downtown she always tipped the operator $2 for a shampoo, $5 for a silver rinse. By entering her blonde, buxom niece, Candace Victoria Laine ("I call her Candy...
...appear deserving of his position, he ought to criticize something." Having stated this definition. Author Leonard Drohan sets out to harpoon the nit of wit among civil servants and middleweight army brass at a Government bureau, a task about as difficult as shooting a whale in a swimming pool. But Drohan, who has worked in the U.S. civil service off and on since 1942, gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government may be like spoofing Hollywood-reality is so much more preposterous than any possible fiction. What might have been a sharp-witted...