Word: amphibianism
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...those chaotic last moments, a Minnesota couple passed their two-year-old son through a window to a life raft, then were trapped in the sinking plane. Lieut. Commander John Natwing leaped from a Coast Guard amphibian that landed at the scene, seized one drowning passenger, and fought off sharks for half an hour until they were both pulled to safety. Another hero was the DC-4's captain. He helped some passengers out of the plane and managed to float four life rafts before the plane sank. He hauled a baby and an elderly woman to a raft...
...captain of the ancient Tennessee ("Old Blisterbutt") about making too much smoke, he coolly signaled back: "Smoke unavoidable. Forced to cut out the boilers and burn garbage to slow down to your speed." In 1944, promoted to rear admiral and assigned to MacArthur's theater; led an amphibian group safely through the Hollandia and Philippine invasions...
McCormick, who had been Acting Chief since Sherman's death, lacked fleet-command experience, and then there were two. The two: Vice Admiral Richard L. ("Close-In") Conolly, World War II amphibian commander, now head of the Naval War College, and Admiral William M. Fechteler, chief of the Atlantic Fleet...
Neptune's Daughter (M-G-M), starring Esther Williams, is a musical that is brilliantly Technicolored, lavishly staged and gowned, blatantly expensive and extravagantly dull. Esther Williams is widely publicized as an amphibian attraction,* and her special gifts are apparent when she is photographed in a swim suit or in a pool. But most of this film's action takes place in street dress, well away from the water. As a result, large chunks of it seem somewhat pointless...
...strange tracks were in sandstone laid down as mud during the Pennsylvanian Age more than 200 million years ago. They must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...