Word: whirlpooling
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...watching the New York Cosmos rip the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 8-3, last week in East Rutherford, N.J. An ardent soccer enthusiast since his boyhood in Germany, Kissinger later chatted in German with Cosmos Stars Franz Beckenbauer and Werner Roth as the players relaxed in the whirlpool. He also shook the hand of the mighty Pele and introduced him to a delighted David. Was Kissinger a Cosmos rooter? Said he: "If you know anything about the passions aroused by soccer, you'd know no professional diplomat would ever admit what his favorite team was. It would take more courage...
...learn, for instance, that the Chicago apartment of Ebony Publisher John H. Johnson has walls of leather, floors of petrified wood and a Jacuzzi whirlpool in every bathroom. Such ostentation, we are told, is frowned upon by the black old guard, who prefer the quiet good taste of Sag Harbor summer houses and Episcopal church services. That the black rich unbridgeably divide themselves into old and new money seems to come as a surprise to Birmingham, whose naivete in such matters -whether real or feigned-quickly becomes cloying. After ten years of traveling among a growing list of ethnic elites...
...complains about the poor athletic facilities which include a whirlpool too small for him to squeeze into. The state of Harvard facilities and basketball program did not contribute to his decision not to play, however, Kirkland says...
...home-town Hornets have just blanked the circuit-leading Mudhens, and the "writers"-as athletes tend to call reporters-are crowded into the Hornet locker room. There in the whirlpool bath is Ace Hurler Ace Hurley, naked as a slow curve, telling a cub reporter how he fanned the last three enemy swatters. She is scribbling fast...
...from a rich family and she was a moneymaker. As things were then, a lot of the best people were radical, but they got lost on the way because of her moneymaking. It's a great theme. People getting torn apart by this political whirlpool, dismembered by the imperatives of American life-get rich, have everything...