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Word: swims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team's final swim Saturday night, the 400 freestyle relay, Suhs, Anne Hardy, Jill Hutchinson and Janice Sweetser shattered their old school record with a 3:24.61 time, good for a 14th-place showing...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Finish in 17th Place at NCAA Swimming Meet | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...populism can keep itself in motion without the prods of rancor. Even the villains of his moral fables -- the barracudas who devour little fish of all sorts ("barracudas swim very deep, where it's very dark; they can't even tell whether they are swallowing white fish or black fish") -- are not so much evil in their own waters, but mainly when they swim back at us from Taiwan. GE is attacked for selling goods made overseas with jobs the company took from America in the first place. Jackson's solution is to keep GE at home with a combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making History with Silo Sam | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Bird adjusted his goggles one last time, reached down for the block and waited for the start in lane three. Harvey crouched next to him in lane four, with Rafferty in five. The horn went off, and Bird's last swim began...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: This Bird Could Fly | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...like I was swimming in a dream," Bird said after the swim. "Normally I like to look at my competition a lot during a race, but I got out quickly and never looked until there were 50 yards...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: This Bird Could Fly | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...captain's retirement had begun, except for one last thing. Minutes after his final swim, Bird received the Hal Ulen award, which goes to the senior scoring the most Eastern points in his four years. The butterfly title put him over...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: This Bird Could Fly | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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