Word: swam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began when he was 13. At 16 he was a star player on the famed Meadow Brook Club's championship team. He also boxed and swam, played tennis, hockey, football and golf. At St. Paul's School he was president of his class. He left school at 17 to join World War I's famed Lafayette Escadrille. He won the Croix de Guerre, was shot down and captured, escaped by jumping from a moving train, walked for eight nights till he reached Switzerland...
...Green Bay, off northern Michigan, where smelts grew thickest, fishermen caught them through holes in the ice in winter, dipped them out of streams with nets when they swam upstream to spawn in spring. A terrific breeder (the female casts more than 20,000 eggs), the smelt fed on insect larvae, other fish and sometimes its own young. Green Bay fishermen began to notice something wrong last winter, when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore and the lake bottoms were carpeted with them...
...that afternoon, the ammunition had run out. German counterattacks were in force, and the U.S. position was untenable. Retreat was ordered. Some swam across the Rapido. Others formed human chains. A sergeant tied wire to a pick, and hurled the pick across the river until it stuck behind a rock. Seven men then pulled themselves across. All the equipment was left behind. A huge German Tommy gunner on the bank shouted: "Hey, Yank, don't you want to surrender?" But he did not fire...
Marso Henry hails from Washington, D. C., Virginia, and the University of Virginia where he played end, tackle, and fullback (not all at once, though some people say he works hard enough to do it), swam free-style, and boxed. Boxing, not football, is the reason for Lamar's coming to Harvard...
...screen for 14 hours. Another unit switched to high explosive when attacked by Italian tanks, disabled three before the others retreated. Last month, the 4.2 showed its usefulness at the crossing of the Volturno. Firing smoke shells, one unit screened infantrymen as they slid down the bank, waded and swam to the German side of the river. Another outfit smoked up the area where Engineers were building a bridge under fire, kept them well screened until the job was done...