Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of raw material. Government payrolls swelled to an amazing 250,000 people -two-thirds of all salaried workers in Ghana-and corruption was rampant. The wife of one of Nkrumah's Ministers imported a gold-plated bed, and one of his close advisers emptied his private swimming pool to provide storage space for the stream of "gifts" he exacted from local and foreign businessmen...
...trouble! Right here in Windy City! The very reverend himself had taken up a cue in a West Madison Street billiard parlor in Chicago to try to shove a ball in a pocket. Looking like the fiercest shark in the pool, Nobel Prizewinner Martin Luther King Jr., 37, was making the best of a bad leave on the eleven with a thin-cut one-rail shot to the corner. Cracked the preacher, who had hustled in from a civil rights walking tour of the city for the game: "I'm just shooting my best stick." No masse demonstrations, please...
...Tigers smashed pool records in both relays, taking the medley relay in 3:40.7 and the freestyle relay in 3:14.3. The latter performance broke the mark set by Yale's 1963 unit that included several 1964 Olympians. The visitors from Old Nassau also pulled and pushed several Crimson swimmers to their best performances of the season...
...race that produced the wildest crowd reaction was one Harvard sewed up, the 200-yard breaststroke. Corris glided away from captain Bruce Fowler after 75 yards, passed the 100-yard mark in 1:04.5 and held the fast pace to finish in 2:16.7, a new pool and University record...
...said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying the sin. In Sartre's world, the problem of evil is as shallow as Narcissus' pool. The self accuses, judges, justifies and condemns the self...