Word: swam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster than any human ever swam before. It shattered Johnny Weissmuller's 17-year-old (20-yd. pool) record by four-tenths of a second...
...swam the Potomac, the Susquehanna. The moon rose in "nocturnal majesty." Still they galloped. "My British mind never properly grasped the dimensions of North America," panted the Duke; "are we still in Pennsylvania?" "That was Baltimore," said someone, as they flashed past a large town. "Egad, what a nest of ugly peasants!" snapped the Duke. In the "cold, caliginous predawn" the huntsmen forded the Delaware. By afternoon they were thundering through the heart of New Jersey. At nightfall Hugo's mare grabbed the fox with her teeth, tossed it ten feet into the air. The world's longest...
...afternoons the Governor, his wife and two sons swam in the Atlantic surf and sunned on the deck beside the Casino swimming pool. When it was time for a change, they put on sports clothes and ate dinner in the big, patio-styled Cloister. They retired early to their $40-a-day suite, to be ready in the morning for traditional Southern breakfasts-ham & eggs, grits, hot biscuits-and another day's relaxation. While the Governor golfed, his wife usually went for walks; son John, 8, learned to ride a bicycle on the alabaster-white beach, harassed...
...been a tense campaign, deeply felt and bitterly contested on both sides. But now the import of the nation's other battles swam back into focus again, like mountains seen after rain. There were the battles of World War II on many fronts, and of the peace somewhere beyond. And, as always in war, there was the personal struggle of thousands with heartbreak, loneliness and loss...
...landed, minesweepers set about clearing the gulf for the 600-ship assault fleet then on the way. For two days and three nights they coolly quartered the gulf, watched for the assault that did not come. Experts in underwater demolition probed among the coralheads for mines; some of them swam for miles to the glistening white beaches, where they found more obstacles to destroy...