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  • Suspicion has fallen on the swimming-pool water, and top Games officials said Thursday they're looking into the possibility that it's contaminated.

    Games Officials Hunt for Spectators, Microbes Amol Sharma 2010

  • In the next decade, the Energy Commission followed with efficiency standards for furnaces, dryers, swimming-pool heaters, household cooking appliances, heat pumps, showerheads, and fluorescent-lamp ballasts, among other products.

    The California Experiment 2009

  • They had bought one of the houses with a swimming-pool—in each block there were six of these although the clubhouse had a pool too, and they threw a pool party to meet their neighbors.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

  • The basement includes garage, storage, wine cellar, game rooms, bathrooms and a large indoor swimming-pool area with direct access to the garden.

    House at Rua Alabarda in Sao Paolo, Brazil 2009

  • His figure lithe and taut from all the tennis and golf he played, the everyday 3 pm run down the Mall from 18th Street to the Capitol and back, his jaw taut and handsome no hint of the double chins plaguing Sadhana's husband now, at forty-one, his eyes a bright swimming-pool blue and his hair a Pantene ad, thick and wavily blond.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

  • John Brackett - "the Doc of the Bay" - had built a business catering partially to tourists who broke their teeth in swimming-pool accidents or on rogue bits of oyster shell in their dinners.

    Adrift in oil, then money David A. Fahrenthold 2010

  • The swimming-pool courts have become a symbol for Serbian triumph over obstacles: Not only did they play through war and economic chaos, they did it on crummy courts.

    The Next King of the Court? Tom Perrotta 2011

  • In the next decade, the Energy Commission followed with efficiency standards for furnaces, dryers, swimming-pool heaters, household cooking appliances, heat pumps, showerheads, and fluorescent-lamp ballasts, among other products.

    The California Experiment 2009

  • John Brackett - "the Doc of the Bay" - had built a business catering partially to tourists who broke their teeth in swimming-pool accidents or on rogue bits of oyster shell in their dinners.

    Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil David A. Fahrenthold 2010

  • At the back of the house the swimming-pool was lit with candles along the edge and colored lights strung over the wooden fence.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

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