Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawal symptoms at all. I thought I would miss Chequers [the Prime Minister's country residence], which is a wonderful place to work. But while I was there I was working so hard that I never got a chance to even go for a swim in the pool that was given to us by [former U.S. Ambassador] Walter Annenberg or to walk around the rose garden in beautiful weather. There was one thing I predicted I would miss-and I was right. That is the switchboard. It was first class. You picked up the phone and asked for someone...
That would suit him fine since he lives baronially, if quietly, in a huge hilltop estate in Beverly Hills, recently purchased from a member of the Doheny family. He has the mandatory electric gate and swimming pool, and a dining room table that could very nearly accommodate the Kong cast. But money is not as much fun to him as the game in which it can be made or lost. Says an associate: "Dino is never happier than in a King Kong situation, where the stakes are enormous, where he can win or lose everything...
...human beings as he did when he got anxious in the original. One of his best moments occurs when Lange, trying to escape him, falls in a mud puddle. Tenderly he picks her up and trots her off to a waterfall for a shower, dunks her in the pool below for a rinse and then, still cupping her in his paws, blows her dry with several mighty breaths...
...only incident occurred in Kansas City, where one accused dealer slammed into an officer's car in a futile escape attempt. Some of the arrestees lived well indeed. In one $330,000 Beverly Hills home (which was complete with $25,000 Jaguar, $40,000 Rolls-Royce and swimming pool), agents found $125,000 in cash-testimony to the enormous profits of the drug trade...
Sheiman declined to disclose details of the system, but he said it gave participants roughly a 60 per cent chance of breaking even or turning a profit. He estimated the chance of losing the entire pool in the lottery as "less than one per cent...