Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece of the true cross in every old church I go into, and some of the nails that held it together." The Sea of Galilee was "this puddle," and no match for Lake Tahoe. Of the Hellespont, Twain wrote: "I don't think much of Leander, now, who swam the Hellespont to see his squaw ... I could swim that creek with all my property on my back...
Pamela and Paul responded to pampering. They performed for the visitors, plunged and swam and grew healthy. But Paddy never joined the fun. He often swam upside down to show his displeasure...
...tide of nationalism that swept the world after World War II, no young nation swam more proudly than Indonesia. Its 3,000 islands were rich with oil, bauxite, rubber, tin; its 85,000,000 citizens made it the world's biggest Moslem nation, sixth in population among all the nations of the world. In five years of fighting and negotiation, it had shaken off 350 years of Dutch rule and installed a working democracy pledged to merge its dozen ethnic groups and 114 different languages into a new "unity in diversity...
...drove her out for a ride. Parked out beside Lake Pontchartrain, he asked her to marry him. She winced; then, without saying anything, she threw aside the quilt that had covered her lower half. From the waist down, she was a fish. She dived into the lake and swam...
...Around. Droning on, lolling back in his chair, Serge would ramble to the end of the story his children knew as they knew their own skins. For 40 years, he told them, Dennis drove out every afternoon to watch beside the lake for Florabelle. Then one day she swam back. "She didn't have but one tooth left in her head, and 40 years under water hadn't done that one much good. Even her tail had lost over half its scales ... Florabelle had more or less had it. But Dennis didn't care . . . He asked...