Word: swum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aspect of the swimming competition was not in the pool at all, but in the supremacy battle between the East German women and the U.S. men. By Saturday the U.S. men had swum nine events, won them all, and set world records in eight. John Naber, 20, the 6-ft. 6-in. paddlewheel of the American contingent, had won three golds and a silver (and possibly one more gold ahead). With his red, white and blue knit cap cocked rakishly on his head, his gawky arms nailing greetings to the crowd and a slack-jawed grin permanently fixed...
Chuck Hector from Princeton completed his sweep of the breaststroke events as he won the 200 breast in an amazing time of 2:05, less than two seconds away from the best time swum by an American collegian this year...
...first of his three winning performances, Hess Yntema blitzed all of his competition in the 200-yard freestyle. Yntema pulled out of the pack at 75 yards and swam pretty much alone in route to his two-second victory. Princeton's Loughran, who had just swum in the 1000, finished second in the race...
...looked pretty bad in the beginning of the meet. We were a little stale because we hadn't swum in a meet since December," coach Stephanie Johnson said yesterday. "Towards the end of the meet we swam well...
...their desperate, headlong flight, some had waded or swum across the Cunene River into South West Africa (Namibia). Many had made the perilous journey in fishing trawlers down the reef-ridden coast to Walvis Bay. Still others had crossed the desert in broken-down trucks and cars. Then, beginning five months ago, a massive air-and sea-lift returned them to their native country (TIME, Sept. 22). By last week 300,000 of them had arrived in Portugal -os retornados (the returned), the refugees who are the bitter harvest of Angola's civil...