Word: swum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-Catho lics, many non-Catholics and even some Catholics), almost none can prove his point because none but the Vatican knows all the facts and circumstances. In general the most serious charges against the Church concern the skill with which the Vatican and its hierarchs have fished and swum in the Fascist sea surrounding them. Vatican critics of various sorts point to various specific chapters of Pacelli diplomacy...
...both men being clocked at 53.8. In the final, however, Hall turned on a little more steam to win in 52.6. This time Ammon, who had finished under the same blanket as Hall and Eusden in the heat, took second, and William's Danny Case, who hadn't officially swum in two years placed third. Eusden was fourth...
...crossing was made after two trainees had swum the icy, 100-ft. stream carrying a pioneer towline. After landing they pulled across the rope bridge, tied it to trees. Then others of their company crept across while machine guns, bombs and mines simulated battle conditions...
...certainly had been busy. At 55, he had been climbing up & down cargo nets like a 25-year-old. He had lowered his high rank into damp foxholes. He had eaten captured Jap rice for want of anything better. Like his men, he had slapped anopheles mosquitoes, swum naked in the Lunga River...
After a dog fight with 14 Jap planes, Lieut. Clarence Sandford had been forced down for lack of gas and had stripped off his clothes and swum three miles to shore, where he collapsed. When he came to, on the beach of Bremer Island, north of Australia, two black aborigines with spears upraised were standing over...