Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breaststroke Sigo Falk and either Dave Falk or Bill Hoadley will probably swim...
Wasted Words. The last U.S. hope was doused in the tepid water of the Olympic swimming pool, where the Australians turned out to be not only dangerous, as expected, but downright homicidal to U.S. hopes. The U.S. woman most dramatically in the swim was the Walter Reed Swim Club's Shelley Mann, who led a U.S. sweep of the 100-meter "butterfly. U.S. men, expected to score heavily, were swamped in the foam of their hustling hosts. Murray Rose, a 17-year-old Aussie who tries a seaweed diet and even hypnotism to help him along, sliced through...
...social-security checks, they will have to pay only $50 a month rent for a cottage with one bedroom, $12 more for each additional bedroom. The one-room apartments will rent for $35 a month. Residents will get free medical care in Salhaven's 32-bed convalescent hospital, swim in one of 15 pools, work off spare energy in a workshop making furniture for Salhaven's cottages and apartments...
...optimistic diagnosis was right. During a vacation at his summer home in St. Patrick, Que., St. Laurent golfed almost daily, splashed around so regularly in the family swimming pool that he finally learned to swim (previously he could only float on his back). He went back to Ottawa not only completely restored from last summer's fatigue, but imbued with more political drive than he has shown for several years...
...Morning Swim. In any case it made little difference, for three years later, on holiday with his wife and child in Wales, Philip Ross went out one day for his customary morning swim-and was never seen again. All that was left of him were his clothes and his footprints on the beach. Eileen Ross went back to Woodford in mourning. The parishioners held a memorial service and raised ?600 to build her a bungalow, and the bishop appointed a temporary vicar for Woodford until Ross's death should be declared official, as in due time...