Word: swimmings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will able to touch my heels the moment that $64,000 piece of parchment touches my palms. Like a bat out of hell, Alyshiba out of the gate or Larry Bird out of the back court, I will be out of Harvard so fast it will make your head swim and your crops wilt...
...wantonness of nature and the consequences of betrayal are undercurrent themes of this collection, which begins with a father luring his toddler son into a pool with the promise of catching him, and then allowing the boy to sink or swim. The name of this story is Trust Me, a title that then echoes brightly through the rest of the book like the sardonic punch line of a locker-room joke...
...safe for bodily contact. Though no one uses the water for drinking or irrigation, infected drifts of foam from Mexican laundry detergents are sometimes scattered by the wind, and Cottrell fears an epidemic is inevitable. At greatest risk are illegal immigrants, who occasionally venture into the polluted suds to swim under the border's chain link fence...
...winning time of 48.20 seconds is the second-fastest 100-yd. backstroke swim of all time. Had the Germantown, Penn., native swam the race one day earlier, it would have been an American record, but Stanford's Jay Mortensen set the new mark of 47.91 in his leg of the 400 medley relay...
...addition, Findley's split of 58.46 in the backstroke leg of the relay dropped her school record mark by over .5 of a second. The swim gave all four honorable mention All-America standing as well...