Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...then, the Rickey sieve had dipped into the only pool of baseball talent left untouched, the Negro leagues. No one, perhaps not even Rickey himself, knew whether he was motivated chiefly by social justice or the chance for increased attendance. But when Jackie Robinson donned a Brooklyn uniform in 1947, Rickey had scored another first, paved the way for such other big-league stars as Larry Doby, Sam Jethroe and Don Newcombe...
...Charlie Brackett have just laid it on too thick, a fact which becomes more and more apparent as the film draws to its climax. The outcome is never in doubt since the picture is nearly all one big flashback, narrated by the hero who is floating in a swimming pool with three bullets in his back...
...Moon Tip) ISLAND was a rather useless place. Its only local reputation was as an off-the-cuff summer resort for the town of Inchon, to which it is joined by a long causeway. The northern end of the tiny island had boasted a large inn, complete with swimming pool, where Inchon's successful merchants could enjoy the summer breezes. After the Communists invaded South Korea, they set up a small guard unit on the island, ringed it with earthworks and hastily dug trenches...
...Season. In Sheridan, Wyo., residents who turned up at the municipal swimming pool on the hottest day of the year (100° at midday) were greeted by a notice reading "Closed for the Winter...
...Democrats saw it, Governor Tom Dewey's decision to run again was dirty pool. Certainly it had knocked out an elaborate Democratic plan to run all the balls off the table. The plan was largely based on the proposition that aging (74) Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley would head the Republican ticket. In such a situation New York's Democratic bosses had figured they could win the governorship with a nobody-particularly since they had gone to the trouble of arranging a mayoralty election in New York City to make sure of a big Democratic majority downstate.*Dewey...