Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Frankie came along, mother Dolly had little time to be a mother. She was off, day and night, in the political swim, and if sometimes the water was polluted, Dolly always insisted that she kept her chin above it. Frank was sent to live with his grandmother, Dolly's mother. He also spent a lot of his time with his Aunt Josie, and with a motherly Jewish lady named Mrs. Golden...
...thing," says De Sapio, "but I want to tell you-I swear to God that if the day ever comes when those guys or their kind [Costello & Co.] have any hold over me whatever, I'm going to get out so quickly it'll make your head swim. The thing you have to remember is that an awful lot of people are depending on me-on my political integrity-for their political futures, their jobs-everything. I couldn't possibly afford to get mixed up with mobsters or hoods, and believe me. I don't intend...
...Just 14 hours and 37 minutes after she waded into the water at Cape Griz-Nez, France, blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 17, staggered ashore beneath the white cliffs of Dover. The pretty Canadian schoolgirl, first person ever to swim the icy waters of Lake Ontario (TIME, Sept. 20), was the youngest ever to swim the English Channel...
...socialites drink so heavily? "In the first place," Editor Deshais wrote, "most every woman who considers herself a part of the social swim lunches at clubs or restaurants four or five days a week. Part of the pattern is to have a little something-or two or three little somethings-on the rocks before the fruit cup is brought on. This could mean an intake of from one to five ounces...
...sullen waters spumed in white fury along the Great Barrier Reef, steely, hidden fingers of coral dug into the bottom of the Endeavour and the hearts of every man aboard. Ordinarily, 18th century seamen panicked fast. Most of them were too superstitious to learn how to swim; they felt it would only prolong the agony of drowning. The only rule of shipwreck and death was to loot the liquor supplies and drink oneself insensible in the short time left to live...