Word: dive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ships began turning into the wind. At 1024 the order to start launching came down from Akagi's bridge by voice tube, and the air officer flapped a white flag. At that instant, slanting and howling down at 70° out of light clouds, the SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Enterprise and Yorktown bore down undetected and unopposed. "Helldivers!" screamed a lookout on Akagi. Within minutes the dive bombers scored a fabulous nine hits and mortally wounded three of the Japanese carriers. Within hours, Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were on the bottom...
...Forrestal, her vast grey bulk towering out of the blue Levantine waters, steamed slowly into Beirut harbor. Hours later a party of Lebanese dignitaries headed by President Camille Chamoun climbed aboard, and the carrier headed back to sea for a demonstration of its capabilities. Among them: tight formations of dive bombers and jet fighters screaming over Beirut's rooftops, lifting away over the snowcapped mountains to the east and fanning out through the Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria...
...filed libel suits for $2,000,000 against the Oregonian and several individuals who supported its story, quietly dropped them.) Still the rival Journal stuck to its guns. On Page One it ran an affidavit from Clifford ("Jimmy") Bennett, operator of an Elkins-backed after-hours drinking dive, in which Bennett denied his previous story that he had paid Schrunk $500 protection money in September 1955-the incident on which the indictment was based. Though last week it ran two editorials criticizing Teamster brass, the Journal continued to maintain, as its Editor Arden Pangborn had put it to Senator McClellan...
Crimson diver Frank Gorman showed his lack of experience badly when he sneaked into the final round of the one-meter dive with 190.75. Although Gorman scored well in the semi-final round, faulty diving in the first round and one bad dive in the final round of four optional dives kept him out of the scoring...
Similarly erratic off the three-meter board, the varsity's only entrant in the dive went into the final round in fourth position but spoiled one dive and marred another to finish sixth...