Word: swims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Just after I put my pencil down an aircraft went flying by. That did it. I went to the beach planning to kill myself-swim till I couldn't swim no more. I once said that I would never have the guts to kill myself. Buddy, it takes guts...
With a splash of purple-worded publicity ("breakfast in London . . . predinner swim at Waikiki"), U.S. commercial aviation last week made its long-awaited move to jet-propelled aircraft. Pan American World Airways signed contracts for 25 Douglas DC-8s and 20 Boeing 707 four-jet airliners. It was the first deal to buy U.S. commercial jets. Total price: $269 million, the biggest in airline history. The deal is certain to be followed by plane purchase orders from other carriers. National Airlines is expected to sign for six DC-8s on which it took a verbal option last August. Other shoppers...
...described a world of anti-matter that could exist somewhere in the universe in which "lakes shimmer and fishes swim," but would be annihilated if it came in contact with the world of ordinary matter...
When Nivola was approached by Washington Architect Walter Marlowe to design the Four Chaplains Fountain he jumped at the chance. "Sardinians have a great and terrifying regard for the sea," he says. "Most of them, including myself, have never learned to swim...
...took off on a monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without...