Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee knows that when the Crimson lost its first game to Clarkson three weeks ago, it was playing without Fusco and standout goaltender Grant Blair. The committee was also well aware of the Crimson's fine home ice record and Cornell's fine road slate. Looking to maximize its pool, the committee sent Cornell to Denver and kept Harvard at home...
...still, the so-called mule skinners who are caught with the shipments seldom turn out to be Mr. Big. "The people who drive the vehicles are usually very poor and uneducated," says one U.S. drug agent. "There is so much poverty in Mexico that traffickers have an unlimited labor pool. The drivers almost always keep their mouths shut, since they have been told that their wives and kids will be blown away otherwise...
Bullion extracted from Swiss banks would pay to remake the Dry Tortugas. Pastel villas for the Big Boys. A grand hotel for their rich friends. The bar would offer drinks like "the Caligula" or "the Vlad the Impaler." Imelda Marcos and Michelle Duvalier could meet by the pool for a "Lady Macbeth." The Big Boys could swagger around and try to seduce one another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot...
University officials at the upstate campus will begin the scheduled 10-month conversion which will produce a hotel and conference center with 122 rooms and six to eight suites. Tentative plans also include installing a cocktail lounge, a banquet room and an indoor swimming pool...
...numb and disbelieving Swedes gathered last week to stare at the small pool of blood in the snow where their leader had been gunned down, they wept not just in grief at the death of a shrewd and compassionate man, but at their unwelcome entry into the era of political terrorism. As one commentator eloquently observed, "The time of political innocence in Sweden has come...