Word: flippers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marcel Cardinal, an ex-commando captain, began underwater exploration out of curiosity, rapidly became an addict. He took to carrying a sketchbook with him to the Cannes beach, would plunge into the deep blue sea off the Côte d'Azur, then flipper to the surface to jot down notes. Worked up first in watercolor and finally in oils, his paintings evoke the mysterious transparency of undersea scenes where objects-a ship's hull, rock outcropping-loom more evocatively than their above-the-surface counterparts...
...missing from his swift career on the track: a world record. He broke the tape in 4:03.4, two-tenths of a second faster than any man had ever run an indoor mile before. ¶ Overflowing with swimming talent as always, Yale Coach Bob Kiphuth took a couple of flipper-footed juniors to the Eastern Intercollegiate championships at Annapolis and saw them collect three titles apiece. Burly Roger Anderson accounted...
Just out of the Navy after a hitch as a frogman, Jon Lindbergh, 25-year-old son of Charles, signed on for more of the same-as a Navy officer in the cloak-and-flipper film Underwater Warrior...
...when one local tough stood on a street corner flipping a coin in the air for fifteen minutes. He then let it drop to the sidewalk. Another boy standing nearby bent over to pick it up for him, and promptly received a kick in the face from the flipper. "That guy was real mean," a local gang leader reminisced later. "He was sort of insane. Playing football, he used to bite guys and wouldn't let go until he drew blood. He was sure a good 'jammer', though." (A jammer is a street fighter who can use his legs...
...Abby's replies are slicker, quicker and flipper, but Ann comes up with an occasional Eppiegram. To the worried young man who asked, "How can I keep my hair?" she suggested: "You could keep it in a cigar box or just throw it away like everybody else...