Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really the deaf Olympics," she said. "It's fun. I don't swim well under pressure...
Miller "is a wonderful, charming person with a warm, outgoing personality and she has genuinely sincere concern for others," said Platt. "Her sportsmanship, encouragement, team spirit and unrelenting desire to win are the driving force behind the USA swim team...
...spent my first fall here in utter amazement at the colors of the trees. In the Evergreen State, trees change color only in picture books. Last weekend I walked around the Fens with a friend from Seattle, watching the ducks swim through the leaves that had fallen on the water and marvelling at the clear skies and unseasonably warm November weather...
...with the pivotal scene in which "Rationality shrieked at him, 'Let it go, Kincaid, get back on the road. Shoot the bridges, go to India. Stop in Bangkok on the way and look up the silk merchant's daughter who knows every ecstatic secret the old ways can teach. Swim naked with her at dawn in jungle pools and listen to her scream as you turn her inside out at twilight. Let go of this' -- the voice was hissing now -- 'it's outrunning you.' But the slow street tango had begun...
...about was 'we're goners.' " But the couple found an air pocket that gave them time enough to find an escape route. The Crossons had felt others around them "pushing and pulling" to get out the same way. Many, the Crossons remember, acted heroically. A conductor urged people to swim to shore, lighting and pointing the way with a flashlight. Others supported and saved those who could not swim. Two young men used a long board to help the Crossons and others make it to shore. It was only later that the Crossons discovered that just a handful of people...