Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shower-taking, lawn-dousing, pool-splashing nation that casually consumes about 300 billion gallons of water a day, it seems curious that water should be a national defense problem...
Facing Sollohub will probably be Bruce Hunter, the Crimson's answer to any sprinter in the U.S. In his only sprint performance this year, Hunter turned in a :28 victory in the 60, a time indicative of very little, since the event took place in a 20-yard pool...
...those prices," says a big-rich snob from nearby Grassy Tor, but Peaceable Lane's eleven families, ranging from doctors and lawyers to a union vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite who rarely pool anything beyond the cars with which the wives chauffeur the kids to school each day. But one lazy Sunday afternoon, between the Bloody Marys and the charcoal-broiled steaks, sudden fear glues Peaceable Lane together. An odd man wants in; a Negro is dickering for the house right next door...
Lamar Winter is a kind of Uncle Tom in reverse. He wears the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, is always combat-ready for the slurs, or worse, of what he regards as the inevitable war between the races. Incidents multiply. The community swimming pool is drained after Lamar's nine-year-old son takes a dip. His wife is bloodied by a bullyboy's stone. The most vicious pressure of all is applied against Lamar by a member of his own race, a Mr. Barton, who acts as a "blockbuster," attempting to spread panic among the whites...
Highlights came in the 200 butterfly and in the 440 freestyle. In his second Harvard meet, sophomore John Pringle hauled in a 2:09.8 win the fly, an early season performance only 3.4 seconds from both pool and Harvard records...