Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter trotted in with a worn folder full of political polls: "He's always here. He's the best man I've got." With his rather heavy humor, the President called Jenkins "the Pope," in reference to Jenkins' Catholicism. Once, standing beside the swimming pool at the L.B.J. ranch, the President confided: "I had this pool put in just for the Pope's kids...
...Schul and Hayes Jones won Olympic gold medals for the United States in track and field, and the U.S. fished four final first places out of the swimming pool in Tokyo yesterday...
Lazing beside the Westerhazys' green pool one Sunday afternoon, Neddy Merrill decides to swim home. It pleases him to imagine that his neighbors' swimming pools form the course of a broad river winding through fertile fields to the grounds of his own fine house. He names the river after his wife Lucinda and sets out at a choppy crawl. At the Grahams' he is given a drink, and at the Bunkers', where a pool party is going on, he gets another. "Oh, how bonny and lush were the banks of the Lucinda River! Prosperous...
...afternoon turns cold, Neddy tires, and beyond the difficult portage of Route 424 he begins to see odd un-familiarities that are not on his mental map. The lawns of friends are weed-grown; for-sale signs appear. There is another pool party, but the hostess, who is a social inferior, snubs him. Someone offers a word of sympathy for Neddy's financial troubles, and Neddy, vaguely uneasy, cannot recall that he has any. Chilled, and more tired than seems reasonable, he doggedly swims the last leg of his trip and hurries home to his wife and four tennis...
Among the former were those who felt "Barry's family is more normal and healthy. For instance, his daughter and her fiance once squirted shaving cream all over him and them shoved him into a swimming pool...