Word: swam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing by a river suddenly noticed a baby float by. One of the men jumped into the river and swam the baby to shore. Then a second baby floated by, and a third. Each time, the same man swam to the rescue. But babies kept coming, one after another. The other man saw that they were getting nowhere. So he walked upstream to stop the flood of babies at its source...
...backstroke, it took a meet-record effortby Harvard's Paul Watson, who swam a 1:52.47 towin, breaking his own record set last year bynearly half a second...
...sobering effect on the team that they could have won at Columbia if they swam like they did today," Harvard Coach Joseph Bernal said...
...swam pretty well, the best so far this year," Williams said. "I hope to do a lot better...
...thinking of scientist turned guru John Lilly. In the 1960s Lilly did serious studies of the dolphin brain, but by the 1980s he was arguing that dolphins relayed extraterrestrial guidance toward a higher consciousness. A parade of Hollywood celebrities, including Kris Kristofferson, Phyllis Diller and Olivia Newton-John, swam with Lilly's captive dolphins in Los Angeles. While few people really believed dolphins were Martians in wet suits, the swims caught on, first with New Agers and then with the general public, as private facilities such as the Dolphin Research Center and Dolphins Plus in the Florida Keys began taking...