Word: crawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swimmers. Everyone expected Eleanor Holm to win the 300-yd. medley race. Her specialty is the back stroke used on the middle lap, after a 100-yd. breast stroke start and before the 100-yd. crawl at the finish. Instead, wiry little Katherine Rawls wiggled to a 5-yd. lead in the first lap, held it through the second, crawled farther ahead in the last lap and won in 4:45⅛ four seconds faster than the previous Holm world's record. Next day Minnow Rawls won the 220-yd. breast stroke championship with a new U. S. record...
With half the Marine patrol dead, Sergeant Palrang ordered Private Mack Hutcherson to crawl back, try to get reinforcements. He never got through - two bullets laid him out with a shattered...
tentacles crawl for meat...
...cheer, his last words to the enthusiastic mob were these: "Now you can crawl back under your stones. Good night!" After several quite understandable defeats truculent Candidate Smith went up to Parliament...
Helene Madison swims "free-style." which means she uses that adaptation of the Australian crawl which U. S. coaches have worked out as the fastest way in which a human being can propel itself through water. A swimmer using this stroke must have long, supple legs for much of the power comes from the hips, knees and ankles. The arms are used somewhat as in the trudgeon stroke. Helene Madison's feet are narrower than those of Johnny Weissmuller, famed male freestyler, but long enough to be good paddles. She has big hands and a tall, athletic body...