Word: fishtail
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With the argument over the use of the butterfly arm movement scarcely having sunk into obscurity, another controversy concerning the ancient breast stroke has been started by the proposal of Matt Mann, coach of the famous University of Michigan swimming teams, to allow the fishtail log drive in breast-stroke competition...
...proposal has met with suggestions for amendment or complete opposition among many swimmers and coaches all over the country. Crimson swimming mentor Hal Ulen thinks "the fishtail is all right as a special event but it's ridiculous to call a butterfly-fishtail stroke the breast-stroke...
...accepted by the Olympics rule committee, the fishtail kick, in which the feet are kept close together in a rhythimical up and down movement, would revolutionize the leg movements in the breast-stroke just as the butterfly did the arms...
Howard Greer (formerly Paramount's designer, now turned free lance): fishtail hem lines on daytime dresses...
...selling French dresses of good ready-to-wear quality and style at moderate prices. Example: at 2,200 francs ($80) Le Louvre last week offered a striking white Cellophane backless evening dress, the front bodice and hips covered with white sequins applied like fishscales and trailing off into a fishtail train...