Word: swum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very happy with my times since I had swum so many events in the meet," Costello said. "If you're able to swim well against the clock, it will help your performance against the better swimmers...
After the 200-yd. butterfly, with seven of the 13 races swum, the Explorers managed to take a one-point lead, 31-30. But consecutive Harvard victories--highlighted by a one-two-three sweep in the 200 backstroke--wrapped up the meet just before the final event...
...first-through-fifth places as opposed to the old 5-3-1 method--for only the second time ever, Harvard (4-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) still cruised to victory, taking 12 of the 16 events and clinching the meet with three events still left to be swum...
None but the French have swum so easily in the rude and mysterious currents of American culture. They found philosophy in our comic strips, published our expatriate novelists, embraced Hollywood movies and dubbed their directors "auteurs." And when the pioneers of bebop pushed jazz away from melody and into the ionosphere of improvisation, French intellectuals were happy to welcome these black American outlaws to Paris after World War II. Bud Powell, the pathfinding bop pianist, settled there in the '50s, made friends and musical history and went a little crazy. Dexter Gordon, a crucial link in tenor-sax bop between...
...biggest drama occured in the 50-yd. freestyle when defending champion Randy Sprout of Cornell injured his knee during the start. When two swimmers were sent into the water to rescue him, Brown's Bill Barr, swimming in the next lane, protested and the race was ordered re-swum...