Word: swum
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Bassi would then have swum in the 400-yard individual medley on day two but since she made the A-cut for the 200-yard butterfly event and only the B-cut for the 400-yard medley, she choose not to swim the event in order to be better prepared for her better event on the final...
Women even joined in House activities that might have been uncomfortable for mixed company. Adams House was famous for its pool, where men had swum in the nude for decades. Women were initially shocked to see men without swimsuits and petitioned the House Committee to enforce mandatory swimsuit-wearing. The HoCo responded with a rule that men would have to wear suits, but only during the unlikely hours of 3 and 5 a.m. Instead of protesting the preposterous hours, the women one-upped the men and shed their swimsuits...
There is an important exception to that rule: the school of animated, psychedelic marine creatures Zissou and his crew encounter. The fishies look as if they have just swum off a Peter Max poster--all gaudy innocence. They're kind of silly and kind of wonderful. They perfectly symbolize what this movie is goofily, even campily trying to say--that the sweet Cousteau spirit is lost to us and that, maybe, this film is not as irrelevant as it dreamily pretends to be. --By Richard Schickel
...problem that this country faces it that the longer it waits to get on the bandwagon, the harder and more costly it will be to do so. The U.S. remains the world’s largest and most powerful economy, but has steadfastly swum against the current under the Bush administration. With declining confidence in the U.S. dollar and the distinct possibility that the world is no longer going to subsidize U.S. spending by buying its government debt, the Bush administration is going to have to find new ways to keep the economy running. Four years of profligate spending seems...
Your story on the discovery of the remains of tiny cave-dwelling humans on the Indonesian island of Flores [Nov. 8] reported that its elephants may have swum the distance that separated Flores from the nearest land when the sea level was at its lowest. Could they also perhaps have had a role in getting Homo floresiensis onto the island? As there is already evidence of elephant migration, who is to say that some early hominids didn't hitch a ride or two on the backs of those buoyant beasts...