Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jewett spoke of the "all time nigh" in this year's applicant pool--nearly seven per cent larger than last year's--and the increased diversity of the Class of '82, which includes more members from the West and South and more minority students than in the past...
...arrived outside Graceland the day before the anniversary of Elvis's death, to wait in the sun in a quarter-mile line for hours for a chance to file quickly by Elvis's grave, at the side of his mansion, near his kidney-shaped swimming pool. Along the line volunteers from a county rescue team patrolled, watching for victims of heat exhaustion. And hawkers patrolled, too, selling everything from autographed pictures of The King to silk scarves he wore to color film. Across the street--Elvis Presley Boulevard--there was still more. The shops that have sprung...
...reported, erroneously, that Carter and Begin had talked for 3½ hours Tuesday night and would eat lunch with Sadat on Wednesday (in fact, the Tuesday meeting lasted only two hours and Wednesday's luncheon did not take place). A.P. recovered by getting hold of a pool photo of Sadat and Begin an hour before rival United Press International had a copy. A Baltimore Sun reporter filed the news that when Sadat prays toward Mecca, he is actually facing Baltimore. And one Israeli correspondent, lacking any other sign of progress, timed Carter's and Begin's initial...
...brevity, Uncle captures the duration of a life: the young man loitering in coffee shops and listening to radical debates; his flourishing business career; his later years, when he lies beside a pool in Miami pondering the ultimate adversary: "If the American dream ever lived on Stegman Parkway, it entered Irv's heart as an unacknowledged optimism about the mechanics of time." Only in old age does he learn to mourn his own mortality. "We are making something out of nothing," he cries. "And what we are making is no good...
Brackman seems to have enjoyed his undergraduate career, although academics do not figure prominently in his recollections: "I played a great deal of pool... between the time I spent in the Adams House pool room and The Crimson, I could account for ten hours a day. But it got dangerous at times. There were guys in that room who, without any warning, could shoot two or three racks at any given time...