Word: swimmings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After doing a normal swim set, once where normally you wouldn't feel tired, you're so winded that all you can think about is air," Scherrer said...
From the time they're old enough to swim, little beach bums are taught to turn their eyes away from the crashing surf of the Pacific, and to concentrate instead on a different kind of water--the chlorinated kind...
What follows is the shady proposition that less gray matter means more happiness--or at least less unhappiness. Given a million years on a remote island, nature turns humans into seal-like creatures of limited intellect. Flippers and sleek skulls enable them to swim after fish. There is no overpopulation because the earth's pre-eminent consumer is now an intermediate delicacy in the food chain, lunch for sharks and killer whales...
...that, his boyhood was so normal and wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once seen Jon Hall swim across a lagoon in John Ford's South Sea romance The Hurricane, and, as he later told it, said to himself, "I can do that...
Then again, it might have something to do with the shoreline's erosion. Although I run by the banks daily, many fellow joggers lose their footing, opting to swim rather than run for exercise. Not that swimming is much better; in 1967, the cascade of water problems were considered too immense to handle. Today, they just term my waters "Class C," which translates into, 'You don't want to swim here unless you plan on a detoxification shower later...