Word: swum
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...turned upon his breast and back swum...
...turned upon his head and down 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...