Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Hollywood, the producer discovered that the Paramount lot (35 acres) was not big enough to contain his other big scene: the crossing of the Red Sea. He therefore demolished the intervening buildings, joined Paramount and RKO territory, built a 200,000 cubic-foot swimming pool, installed hydraulic equipment that could deluge the area with 360.000 gallons of water in two minutes flat. This scene alone cost more than a million dollars and took 18 months to shoot...
...walk, the surgeons cut through the bone of the left knee, straightened it, then let it heal in the extended position. They used traction and casts on her hips, made new joints for her elbows. Angelina's muscles, atrophied from disuse, were strengthened by exercises in the swimming pool (the buoyancy of water neutralizes the weight of the limbs and makes motion easier...
...second-week returns from the New York Daily News straw vote showed Ike with 60.8% in the state to Adlai's 39.2% (in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City, Eisenhower, incredibly, led by 51.2% to 48.8%). At Republican headquarters in Washington, National Chairman Leonard Hall, participating in an office pool, scribbled down his guess on Ike's electoral total: 375. And at Democratic headquarters a weary staffer said sadly: "There is a kind of lull in the campaign...
...optimistic diagnosis was right. During a vacation at his summer home in St. Patrick, Que., St. Laurent golfed almost daily, splashed around so regularly in the family swimming pool that he finally learned to swim (previously he could only float on his back). He went back to Ottawa not only completely restored from last summer's fatigue, but imbued with more political drive than he has shown for several years...
...upstairs lounge with its pool tables, reminder of the days when Leavitt's pot-bellied stove provided a club-room for smokers, was closed two years...