Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cordon was tending to his senatorial business and Oregon's interests in Washington, Dick Neuberger underwent a startling experience that led him into the race for the Senate. Wrote he, recently: "My wife looked at me. She had the same resolute glint in her eye as when she swam across the inlet near Juneau while the water was full of drifting ice floes. 'You're going to run for the U.S. Senate, Richard Neuberger,' said Maurine, 'if you get only two votes -yours and mine. I've made up my mind that...
...over the jealous opposition of his elegant, childless wife-Author Taylor finds unpredictable perceptions. The prose is studded with jeweled vignettes, e.g., the school matron: "As smooth as minnows were Mrs. Lancaster's phrases of welcome; she had soothed so many mothers, mothered so many boys. Her words swam all one way in unison, but her heart never moved." Several of the short stories are little more than finger exercises. But they are done by fingers as quick and sure as any in the business...
...deep off eastern Texas, they picked up samples of sediments, gathered sea creatures, e.g., sand dollars and mud-living worms, and studied the growth of marine vegetation. They pursued and captured in glass jars the bubbles of natural gas that rise from the bottom of the Gulf. While they swam in the silent depth, they heard clams clicking their shells. Louder sounds were the bangs of dynamite charges set off by oil prospectors a dozen miles away...
...richer by some $50,000 in cash and gifts such as a fur coat, furniture, vacation trips and a powder blue convertible. And she will probably escape taxes because she swam for "the honor of Canada...
...boys came from good homes; they belonged to the old, respected element. Ignorance? All had good school records. Organized crime? None belonged to hoodlum gangs which are the farm clubs of the New York underworld. Three of the four had been summer camp counselors; they liked athletics, played handball, swam at neighborhood pools, liked books and music...