Word: swam
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...went under. I didn't know I was alive. I was all turned around. I couldn't see. It was all dark, very scary. Then I said, "Wait a minute - I'm alive, I can move. [But] I couldn't move my legs. I swam with my arms to surface. I got to the surface, took a big gasp of air, and begged God to save me. I couldn't yell, I couldn't scream for help. The current was so strong...
...save their family, Randy, his brother Laurence and cousin Rydell, both 18, had to jump from a third-story window into the 8-ft.-deep waters of the flooded city. The cousins, none of whom are strong swimmers, swam several blocks to get an abandoned boat and then spent nine hours ferrying family members to higher ground, helping others when they could...
Galbraith remained a frequent lunchtime presence at the Faculty Club and swam three times a week at Blodgett Pool long after his retirement, according to Parker...
...once. They didn’t make any movies about me, though, since I was eliminated in round two of the New York City qualifying spelling bee and never made it to nationals. After winning my district spelling bee, I dutifully studied the PAIDEIA book of words until letters swam in my head like alphabet soup. To this day, I still don’t know what PAIDEIA stands for, but I studied it anyway, visualizing words as my teachers had advised. The day of the bee, my parents beamed with pride. My entire sixth grade class took a field...
What really fascinates scientists about the fishapod is that it fits so neatly into one of the most exciting chapters in the history of life--when creatures that swam in seas and rivers gave rise to things that walked, ran and crept on land. The fishapod appears to be a crucial link in the long chain that over time led to amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals. Indeed, Tiktaalik roseae, the official name bestowed on the fishapod (in the language of the local Inuit, tiktaalik means "large fish in stream"), falls anatomically between the lobe-finned fish Panderichthys, found...