Word: swum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned upon his breast and back swum...
...mackerel cannot see or touch itself, thus has no idea what sort of creature it is" [TIME, June 4]. But if you'd ever swum around in a school of mackerel the way I have, taking notes, you'd know that each mackerel looks at the thousands of others and figures that he's pretty much like all his neighbors...
...Navy Lieut. Eugene Sanford, ex-policeman from Evanston, Ill., was riding in a launch off Saipan when he saw a big PB2Y flying boat sinking. Japs who had been hiding in Saipan's caves for three months had swum out to the plane and blown a hole in it with a hand grenade. Lieut. Sanford killed the Japs with a Tommy gun-a fate which they must have known was inevitable...
...west London-the Cock, the Crown, the Cheshire Cheese, the Café Royal-where he found his friends Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Yeats, Symons and sometimes his French idol, Poet Paul Verlaine. At the first pub he would order absinthe, then quickly jot down the verses that had swum in his head during the day. That done, he would hurry on to a small, cheap Soho restaurant called the Poland, where he conducted one of the strangest, most fruitless courtships in literary history...
...carried seaward by a swift tide. When he finally did reach another boat and hauled himself into it, he found only dead marines there. He stayed with the dead all night. Next morning he was close to being shot for a Jap: during the night the enemy had swum to disabled landing craft and were using them as machine-gun nests. Not until Tarawa's third day did Bundy finally get ashore...