Word: developed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Communist China south of the Yangtze could not expect permanent peace with the Communist north. And it could not survive if the U.S. pursued toward it the same frigid policy that had helped ruin Chiang Kaishek. A free south China, however, would give Washington another chance to develop a positive policy before all Asia was lost...
...make a Switzerland of Israel," the oldtimer went on. "East and West may fight all around us, but we must keep ourselves detached from it as the Swiss have done with their policy of strict neutrality." "Yes, yes," said the newcomer. "We have few natural resources, but we must develop specialized industries and skills as the Swiss have," said the oldtimer. "Like the Swiss we must work hard to cultivate our lands and nourish our herds. Do you understand?" "Yes," said the newcomer, "all but one thing." "And what is that?" "Why didn't Moses keep on walking till...
...Washington, Costa Rica promptly invoked the newly ratified .Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense), and presented its case at a special meeting of the Organization of American States. Nobody needed to be told that if the Costa Rican trouble dragged on, it might easily develop into a general Caribbean conflict...
Kirkland hopes against hope that last year's late-jelling squad, a great deal of which is returning, can develop under the coaching of Gunther Rosinus. Considerable height and piut-sized Pankey, guard from last year's Freshman team, will be a big help...