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Word: dive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy fighter and dive-bomber pilot in the war, he had been shot down in the Solomons, hospitalized for a year. As a newsman, he had been around: to Alaska, Shanghai and New York Herald Tribune posts in Washington and Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Appointment in Salonika | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...road was a Russian outpost. Through field glasses, the Americans watched the Russians watching them through glasses of their own. As the U.S. party waited in the hot sun, some Russians fired a few quick bursts from an automatic weapon. Some of the Americans flexed for a dive to cover. Then they checked: this was only target practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: South of the Border | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Takes Dive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ho Hum --- Crime Wins, 23-2 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Hapless Dudley took another dive on the diamond, and Leverett was so much the gain for it. A pair of commuters was all Dudley could scrape up in the way of ballplayers, but they weren't enough to make the game interesting. Leverett won by forfeit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Rallies In Final Moments Edging Lowell 4-2 | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

Miss Hayworth, who naturally plays the title role, picks convenient moments to dive off rocks, kiss Orson Welles, and just lie around looking dewy-eyed and shapely, and she still finds time to do a satisfactory job of acting out her part in the story. Welles, as the philosophic Irishman, affects a brogue that is not objectionable, while Everett Sloan and Glen Anders, who play Hayworth's husband and his partner respectively, give excellent performances as two rather evil individuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

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