Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help in recycling, Henry Kissinger has called for the Western countries and Japan to form a pool of $25 billion this year and perhaps another $25 billion next year. They would draw the money from petrodollar deposits in their banks and lend it out to industrial countries that have financial emergencies. For example, if a big oil producer pulled all of its money out of sterling, the British could get an immediate loan from the pool to cover their currency loss. Some Common Market nations, particularly West Germany, are cool to the Kissinger plan because they and the U.S. would...
...plains of Troy, spears cleave through a man's tongue and shatter his teeth or pierce an eye socket. Swords sever heads. Armies mow down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer is: "So many die, so often, every day,/ when would soldiers come to an end of fasting...
...second line of defense for its policies. This year, of the 25 blacks admitted, only nine came. Harvard admitted 18 per cent of its black applicants and 16 per cent of its applicants overall. Yet the number of black applicants was still under 3 per cent of the total pool. The GSAS claims that blacks are not applying to the GSAS because they prefer to go to professional schools. It is true that more students of all races are trying to get into law or medical school, but there is little or no evidence that blacks are attending these schools...
...rationing-one wife to a customer. As the system breaks down, with more and more men leaving their wives to take younger women, he argues, "the older men in effect become polygamists, monopolizing the fertile, eligible years of two or more women. The inevitable result is a growing pool of abandoned older women and millions of young single men who cannot get married or have children-a major rupture in the social system. The sexual shuffle is creating a class of bitter losers...
...most serious problem area is the southern part of the state, where new housing developments have been built along the marshy bayous where the alligators live. Last summer, for example, a family in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie went out to its swimming pool for an evening dip, but stopped short: a 4-ft. alligator was lolling in the water. Alligators have also been pulled, smoked or hosed out of culverts in Golden Meadow, Morgan City and other towns south of New Orleans...