Word: dive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most builders were cheered by the changes. Said Levittown Builder William J. Levitt: "The new terms are a healthy stimulant to housing. They will enable the homebuilding industry to pull out of its nose dive starting right now, and housing starts should climb well over the 1,000,000 mark next year...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...
...months passed, a deep affection developed between the nurse and the baby gorilla. They would romp together uproariously. Knorke would race around the room, dive under Rosemarie's bed, scramble out the other side and leap into her arms. She found he was terribly ticklish over nearly all his body; even a slight tickling drove him into paroxysms of gorilla laughter, a rapid, staccato inhaling...
...Hiryu! With only 18 dive bombers and six Zeros, Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi of the sole surviving carrier, Hiryu, put in a sudden, sharp attack against Yorktown, losing almost all of his aircraft but scoring three hits and starting fires. At 1245 Yamaguchi threw in his last ten torpedo bombers and six fighters, remnant of Nagumo's force of 250 plus, led by a lieutenant who knew he had only enough fuel for a one-way trip. The result: slaughter for the Japanese planes by U.S. fighters and antiaircraft, but two torpedo hits on Yorktown, enough to cripple...
...Admiral Spruance on Enterprise sent off 24 dive bombers to get Hiryu. "Enemy dive bombers directly overhead" was about all Hiryu's lookout had time to report before Hiryu, swerving in an attempted evasion, was smothered by four direct hits. And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan. "The game was up," a Japanese yeoman recalled. "The members of the staff looked at one another, their mouths tight shut. Indescribable emptiness...