Word: breast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fastest combinations going in every event. With Kerry Donovan in the sprints, Dick Thoman in the back-stroke, Dennis O'Connor and Stanton Smith in the breast-stroke, plus some in- credibly fast relay teams, the Elis may well surpass more than a few marks...
Columbia has several individual performers who might make good showings. Lion Captain Dick Auwarter has won consistently in the 150-yard individual medley and in his specialty, the 200-yard back-stroke. Al Sacknoff does the 200 yard breast-stroke in under 2:30. Pete Martin records pretty fair times in the sprints and John Wuorinen in the long distance free-style events...
...Mulvey, Ken Emerson, and Bill Travis set the tone of the Penn meet with an opening victory in the 300-yard medley relay. Mulvey later won the 200-yard backstroke; Emerson took the 200-yard breast-stroke, breaking a 16-year Harvard record in 2:24.8; and Travis anchored the victorious 400-yard freestyle relay, preceded by John McNamara, Jim Jones, and Mal Harris...
Leming was one of the rescuers standing by at Hunstanton, Norfolk, when the seawall broke, isolating 35 bungalows. An Air Force Weasel set out to rescue the cottagers and was swamped. A motor-launch crew tried three times to breast the gale and was blown back. Without a word to anyone, Reis Leming, clad in a rubber "exposure suit," waded into the icy waters, pushing a rubber raft ahead of him. Often the water swirled above his head, but "I just hung on until I could get a foothold again," he said...
...eastern Cuba. A few weeks later, with troops landed elsewhere, the revolutionaries engaged the Spanish regulars near Camagüey. Dressed as usual in formal black, waving an unaccustomed pistol, Martí charged on a white horse. One of the first of the Spanish bullets smashed through his breast and killed him. He was 42. His death helped turn the uncertain, barefoot rebels into a band of machete-swinging warriors; he became a hero whose fiery slogans were remembered. Three years later, thanks to powerful intervention by the U.S., Marti's goal of independence was in sight...