Word: undertow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athlete? Mile. Sion determined to try again. Accompanied by a tug which contained, among others, Rival Harrison, she took off for Dover in the bright morning. Six hours after her start she was only nine miles from the pale cliffs. But against her, also, the tide turned; the undertow clutched at her thighs; the chill of the seas began to penetrate her courage. Once she was 1¼% miles from shore-the nearest that any woman has come to achieving the exploit, but at length, unable to make progress, she was picked up, and her tug chugged back toward France...
...Committee which was obliged to amuse the delegates to the Democratic Convention for more than two weeks, plunged into the surf in front of his villa at Palm Beach. He emerged some minutes later firmly grasping the half-drowned Maxine Elliott-his guest who had been overcome by an undertow...
...times has served as a bridge for the crossing of western civilization to Asia will now, while in the hands of a powerful and fanatical Turkey, become an impenetrable wall, blocking the passage of progress and civilization to the east. Someone has said that the Turks always constitute the undertow to every tide of civilization. History has proven this, and it will be repeated if the Turks are not kept out of non-Turkish territories...