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Word: poole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since worked off in simple ways: settling down in New Jersey to a quiet family life (a wife and three-month-old son), playing golf, driving hot-rods at breakneck speeds. But a practical joke is still his special maggot: he once dived into a Miami millionaire's pool wearing a $200 suit just to prove he "could afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Take Artist | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...your girdle and really let the ball have it"), won 56 major tournaments; after a three-year fight with cancer; in Galveston, Texas. Ranked by many the world's greatest woman athlete, Babe Didrikson dabbled expertly in most sports she did not star in (including boxing, football, swimming, pool, tennis), matured from a pugnacious girl into a talented housewife who could design her own clothes, won several golf tournaments (1954 Women's Open, Tarn O'Shanter) after being stricken with cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 8, 1956 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...nine minutes a day of footage filmed by their own cameras. But the Australians refused, fearing that the edge would be taken off commercial resale of Olympics movies. Instead, they offered to hand out three minutes of their own film daily to all comers. The film pool resented being limited to a handout, announced that they would make no movies of the Olympics for theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Olympic Boycott | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...break the sunlight and give the effect of light filtering through tree branches. "With the courtyard," Stone points out. "the building will also get cross ventilation when it is not necessary to use the air conditioning." To set .off the building, Stone is using "another Oriental device," a pool to reflect the structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Taj Mahal Modern | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Newly arrived in Hollywood, Britain's blonde, shapely (37-23-35) Diana Dors, threw a wingding for 250 film celebrities at her rented $175,000 estate, made a big splash when she landed, fully clothed in her swimming pool with her husband, agent and designer tumbling in after her. Diana's husband climbed onto dry land first, a baleful look in his eye as he fixed United Press Photographer Stewart Sawyer, 32, bellowing that the lensman had pushed the quartet in so that a fellow photographer could get the picture. Her skintight toreador pants and diaphanous shirt pasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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