Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Having skipped a couple of grades, he decided to kill a year between high school and college, went to live with his sister in Los Angeles. He worked in a toy store, shot pool, and went to the track. Finally, he took a job as office boy in MGM's cartoon department "so I could watch movie stars." Then he began to study acting at the now defunct, professional Players Ring Theater. From then on, all thoughts of college vanished. He moved on to TV's Matinee Theater, and in 1958 he made his first movie, Cry Baby...
...boom, currently at 22,400 barrels of crude a week, shows no signs of abating. A freelance driller, Clarence ("Squeak") Collins, happily exhibits a geologist's map that shows 17 more underground oil pools in the county, all a mere 1,200 ft. to 1,700 ft. down. "Nearly all the wells in the county are drawing from a single pool now," he rhapsodizes. "Think what's still down there!" Oil experts estimate the area's reserves at 10 million barrels. Another independent producer, George Sakellaris, predicts that the natural gas that forces oil right into...
...four captives played pool and backgammon with two Soviet majors and a female Armenian interpreter who were their constant companions. Often they were joined in the evening by two Soviet generals, who displayed a healthy curiosity about U.S. military affairs. On the last night of their captivity, after being driven to the Soviet border village of Akyaka, the two U.S. generals were held up for nine more hours while the Russians tried to get them to sign a protocol admitting that they crossed the border near Ani, implying that they had been snooping along the border. Finally Scherrer wrote...
...seeking to lodge our students in housing not drawn from the Cambridge housing pool by building additional housing for graduate students and young faculty...
...fact, the Army inducts an embarrassing number of soldiers who turn out to be physically or emotionally unfit and end up requiring extensive care or lifetime disability pensions. Army doctors who let such men through are required to explain their errors. To avoid such difficulties, and because the pool of qualified men has so far been adequate for the Army's needs, doctors give draftees with borderline conditions the benefit of the doubt. All this helps men armed with doctors' letters, which Army physicians have no time to verify and would just as soon accept...