Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bayou folk swam, clung, gasped and prayed for their lives. Those lucky enough to reach specks of dry land found only more terror: with them were alligators and water moccasins, tossed out of the torrent, snapping and striking in their fury (Mrs. Stephen Broussard lost three children to the tidal wave-and a fourth died of snakebite). In Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand...
...Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner of two gold medals at Melbourne and holder of every women's free-style record from 200 meters to 880 yds., was only twelve when she began racing in competition. Dawn Fraser, 20, the Olympic 100 meter free-style titleholder, was 13 when she swam in her first big race. Realizing that Aussie swimmers are often champions before they get out of high school. U.S. colleges (Yale in particular) have been importing them for years...
...faster. Australian coaches experiment with special diets (Murray Rose stokes up on seaweed jelly) and novel styles. A few have even tried hypnotism. But like good coaches anywhere, they depend most on grinding work. In the year preceding the Melbourne Olympics, Australian team members trained hard for ten months, swam six days a week, covered an estimated 80 miles apiece each month. Many of them took a ten weeks' calisthenics course in a Sydney gym, tossed medicine balls, chinned the horizontal bar, did pushups. Buoyant (5 ft. 6 in., 152 Ibs.) "Lainy" Crapp worked up to 80 push...
Albemarle fired its 8-in. gun. "Surrender!" came the cry from the shore. "Never-I'll be damned first!" yelled Cushing as he dove into the river. He floated and swam downstream, stole a rowboat from a squad of Confederates who were posted near by and made his way back to the fleet...
Griffith J. Winthrop '58, of Winthrop House and Canandiagua, N.Y., succeeded H. Chouteau Dyer as captain of the Crimson swimming team. He swam during part of the season on the 400-yard freestyle relay team...