Word: frogman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas, ex-U.S. Marine and onetime frogman, trained last winter by swimming in Puget Sound, downed gallons of milk and devoured pounds of steak and potatoes to build up his weight to a fat-padded 270 Ibs. Four times-like all of his fellow challengers-he tried the straits by swimming from Canada to the U.S., and gave up miles from shore...
...auction block in Cairo: a confiscated, outsize frogman outfit, once the property of Egypt's bullfrogsize ex-King Farouk...
...favor the sea as their excuse for swearing. Richard Widmark drove his submaraine to Hell and High Water, while Allan Ladd was frozen in Hell Below Zero. Currently, some Italians have been renamed Hell Raiders of the Deep (an earlier, more ingenuous Widmark was content with the term "frogman" in the same line of work). Ida Lupino has also released a bit of whimsy called, for little reason, Private Hell 36. These are not good films...
...towing several inflated rubber bags. When the officer shouted at him, the swimmer dived and escaped. Inspectors who got the bags out of the water found that they contained American tool bits, of a type in great demand in Communist China. The Communist frogman had hoped to attach them to the ferry's hull, for the journey out of Hong Kong's territorial waters. After that, smuggling them into Red China would have been easy...
Farkas was taking a few practice swings on the bank in front of Dunster when the club accidentally flew out of his hands and into the river. Murphy's aid was then sought, and he volunteered his frogman suit and his services...