Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military caste in power. The program is to be under the auspices of the Regular Army, and the training given in how not to think is the antithesis of the individuality of the democratic system. For military reasons too, conscription is unfeasible. The advantages of having a great, unwieldy pool of men half-trained in obsolete weapons are non-existent, especially in face of all the new implications of atomic warfare...
...routine training flight. On a sunny morning this week, the sleek T.W.A. Constellation, Star of Athens, swung low over the Brandy wine light, skimmed north up Delaware Bay. The lighthouse-keeper heard a jarring explosion, then two more. An enormous pillar of smoke shot up from the pool of gasoline flames on the water. By the time fishing boats and the Coast Guard reached the scene, all that was left of the Constellation and its four-man crew were some floating wreckage, a few bits of burned flesh and charred clothing...
...usually golfs on the private approach course on his 300-acre estate at Reigate, Surrey. There, beside the golf course, stands an imposing establishment: a 35-room Georgian house, 20 cottages, swimming pool, tennis courts, a stable, and kennels housing 200 of the best Labradors and pointers in England...
Everybody wanted his money. It seemed to John M. Davis that he couldn't spit, scratch or let down his galluses without somebody scheming up something to do with it. His relatives wanted it. Everybody else wanted it-they wanted him to build a hospital or a swimming pool. For all he knew they wanted him to build a fly, locust and grasshopper hatchery. John M. Davis was damned if he'd give them a nickel but he couldn't figure out what to use it for, himself...
...nation's 110,000 school districts have one thing in common: they are too small. A dozen states have 100 or more districts with fewer than ten pupils; in Kansas, half of all the districts are "undersized and anemic." If three small districts combined, they could pool enough money to hire one good teacher...