Word: swam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Place & Show. In Omaha, Marty Kaplan, ahead in the last lap of a swimming race, put on his stretch drive, swam right out of his trunks, got rattled, finished second...
...published as Finnegans Wake) of that great master James Joyce. With Joyce's gigantic experiment in evidence, transition's purpose "to revolutionize language" seemed a possible one; dadaists and automatic writers took renewed courage; and young poets dipped more consciously into the unconscious, in which Uncle Alfred swam like a kidney...
...congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...
Giannini allowed none of this to interfere with his joy in the simple life. Mornings he lay all but naked atop a bathhouse, his sun-blackened, 6 ft. 1½in., 215-lb. bulk streaming inelegant rivulets of sweat. He swam, indulged himself in a rubdown, sat up with a towel around his ample middle to address those around him in .a hoarse, booming voice...
With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...