Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong. They prescribed digitalis (which he has taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined...
...Army had things under control. Dozier advised TIME'S editors that none of his actions was to be in any way construed as heroic and that the real credit should go to the U.P.'s Roland Shackford and the A.P.'s Joe McAvoy, who ran the pool in the isolated embassy building and stuck it out, although rioters fired the building four times. "The other unsung heroes of the occasion," he wrote, "were the native All America cable messengers who kept right on dodging snipers and stepping over bodies in the streets to get our copy through...
...national election pool, one Luigi Prato, of Valenza, a pessimistic member of the Popular Front, accurately guessed the number of seats the Popular Front would receive in the Chamber. By betting against his own side...
Painter Winston Churchill was doing all right: three of his paintings (Blenheim Tapestries; Goldfish Pool, Chartwell; The Blue Sitting Room, Trent Park) were accepted for this year's Royal Academy exhibition...
...divided by the total number of seats (e.g., 10), giving an electoral quotient (50,000). A party polling 160,000 votes of the total in its district can fill three quotients, i.e., get three seats. The spare 10,000 votes are diverted to a national pool where they are merged with spare votes from other districts until there are enough to fill another quotient...