Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lilith's present depredations is a place called Battle Hill, a rise of ground with a "strategic situation in regard to London." Through history, Battle Hill has witnessed massacres without number-"mornings and evenings of hardly human sport." Now, "from other periods of its time other creatures could crawl out of death, and invisibly contemplate [the living], awaiting the hour when they should either retire to their own mists or more fully invade the place of the living...
...following swimmers, scored for Radcliffe: 40-yard freestyle--Sherich, Loring; breaststroke--Merritt; 20-yard backstroke--V. Gossard, Moses; crawl form--Anthony; 60-yard medley relay--Moses, Sherich, Loring; backstroke form--Moses; 20-yard breaststroke--Sherich; 80-yard freestyle relay--Anthony, Blum, V. Gossard, Loring; and diving--V. Gossard and E. Gossard...
...wartime outfield fill-in for the New York Giants, Dan Gardella had never done anything to get himself into baseball's hall of fame (though he hit 18 home runs for the Giants in 1945). One of his chief distinctions was off-the-field acrobatics-he could crawl out a hotel window and dangle from the ledge by his fingertips. Three years ago, after a spring training row with the Giants, he stormed off to play, for more money, with the Mexican League (TIME, March 11, 1946) and was suspended from organized U.S. baseball for five years...
When Jamison Handy was 20, he helped develop the American crawl. Reading a Sydney newspaper's fuzzy description of the Australian crawl, with which Down Under swimmers were then smashing records, young Handy tried to imitate the stroke he had never seen. The Australian crawl was such a sensational step forward that some kind of American imitation was inevitable; other Americans besides Jam Handy tried their own adaptations. The U.S. style that finally emerged combined the double over-arm stroke with a loose-leg kick from the hips instead of the knees. Using it, Handy won three national free...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at an annual clinic of 250 college swimming coaches, hale and hardy Handy jumped into a pool to demonstrate his new "twintail" crawl. Instead of kicking his legs alternately and steadily, he gave them turns. While the left leg took three kicks to one arm stroke, the right leg dragged with only a slight relaxed flutter; then the left one dragged while the right one kicked three times. The crowd cheered Handy's demonstration, but most coaches were a little skeptical. Handy was sure that time would vindicate him. Said he: "When I was younger...