Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hadn't seen Chris for months. He's twenty-seven or so, a professional cook, with broad shoulders, a mustache, and a good eye for pool. Every Christmas for the last few years, we meet and play at Rotten Rodney's on Lake Street in Madison, Wisconsin. This year my father joined us and we played cutthroat for a couple hours. My dad went to Harvard, before becoming dean of a string of law schools, Chris paid his own way through school, after doing time on the oil rigs in Montana, and I'm a smart-ass undergraduate...
...Stuart's composure and charm that they would have hired him anyway. Stuart seemed to enjoy his job, or at least the things his eventual $100,000-a-year salary could buy. The Stuarts purchased a slate-blue clapboard house in suburban Reading. In the back was a heated pool that the Stuart brothers, a world away in dingy Revere, loved to use. Several times Carol invited co-workers from Cahners Publishing, where she worked as a lawyer, for weekend pool parties. To neighbors, the Stuarts were a devoted couple, jogging together around a nearby lake, kissing each other...
...consecutive days of radiation therapy at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She is being treated for Graves' disease, an affliction that inflames the thyroid gland and can cause bulging, watery eyes and double vision. After her session, she dashed off with characteristic aplomb to the White House pool for her customary 60 laps...
Meith said more should be done to ensure that suburbanites will drive to the Alewife station and then use public transportation, saying the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which operates the station, should offering parking incentives to those who car-pool...
...fondly recalled days of World War II, when correspondents had to wear uniforms and submit to censorship, a practice the military abandoned in Viet Nam and has avoided since. In response to criticism over the barring of reporters from the 1983 Grenada invasion, the Pentagon created a National Media Pool of rotating news organizations. The military not only decides when a pool will be "activated" and "deactivated" but also sets the ground rules for participation, including understandably strict limits on what information can be published before an operation begins. Moreover, it allows the local commands to exercise almost complete control...