Word: swirling
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...pool of the Houston apartment complex they shared. She hopped in for a swim, and he looked on in wonderment as she steadied herself with her toes against the pool wall and stretched out to float serenely on her back, her long brown hair making a slow swirl in the blue water and her arms outstretched like a cross. She seemed so at peace he thought she might fall asleep on that bed of water. He would later find out that she was a champion swimmer and had once swum around an island in Mexico. She loved to sail...
...cougars and bears, which are rarely spotted, alligators are everywhere and are almost always docile. Along a path just inside Everglades park's Shark Valley entrance, for example, alligators loll along the bank of the adjacent canal, as uninterested in the people as they are in the bugs that swirl overhead. Yet park employees have seen tourists run over alligators with bikes and wheelchairs, throw rocks at them and stab them with sticks. People even put kids on the backs of the creatures for a gator photo op. "The alligator isn't the problem. It's humans," says park naturalist...
...Samandi was not alone. Banu said every time there is a call for suicide mission volunteers - called Black Tigers - more than 50 young guerrillas applied. So many, in fact, that Prabhakaran created a martyrs' lottery. "They put everyone's name in a tombola," said Banu. "They swirl them around. Then the Leader pulls out two names, reads them out and the 48 who aren't chosen are all crying. But the two who are chosen, they are very happy and the people around them raise them on their shoulders and are all clapping and celebrating...
...rioters' outrage stems from reports that Rini had bought M.P.s' votes with money from Asian business backers. Rini has denied the allegations, but claims of bribery and corruption - which were also leveled at his predecessor, Sir Allan Kemakeza - swirl constantly on the Solomons' "coconut wireless." Police investigating the riots on Sunday arrested Central Honiara M.P. Nelson Ne'e for intimidation and issued a warrant for the arrest of East Honiara M.P. Charles Dausabea on similar charges...
...girl of the season, but none of them seem at all interested in proposing to her. They take one look and then go off with “some chinless little creature from Cadogan Square,” Lady Montdore laments. Polly is inexplicably cold and aloof amidst her swirl of coming-out parties...