Word: dive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stick, trying to pull it back and get the nose up again. He braced his feet against the rudder pedals and pulled with all the strength of his 6-ft.-1-in., 220-lb. body. The stick would not budge, and the airplane's path steepened into a dive. Smith called the airport tower over his radio: "Lost hydraulic pressure. Controls frozen. Going straight in." By then his dive angle was almost vertical. A pilot in an F-100 saw him head toward the cloud deck. "Bail out!" he begged by radio. "Bail out, George...
...innumerable parodies are triumphs, too, all of them sketched with an ironic hand. Driving along the highway, Charlie contemplates some billboards. "A pretty girl pauses at the peak of her swan dive. . . After you pass, presumably she finishes, . . . slipping soundlessly in the frosty glass of beer beneath her." This is the pace, never strained, which Goodman maintains throughout the book...
...blackest 5½ hours the New York Stock Exchange had seen since Oct. 29, 1929. All told, 7,720,000 shares, more than double the usual number, had been traded. On the Dow-Jones averages, industrials plummeted 31.89 points, rails 11.15 points, utilities 2.46 points; in industrials the nose dive just about matched the drop that occurred when the market first collapsed in 1929. Overall, the composite average of 65 stocks showed a drop of 10.76 points to 162.75. Half the entire 1955 gain had been wiped out. The depreciation on 1,500 stocks listed on the Big Board amounted...
...Zurakowski in a CF-100, a Canadian-built interceptor. The CF-100 is also too big for much stunting, but Zurakowski flew it backwards. He shot up in a vertical climb until the airplam lost speed and slid down tail first. Then he flicked it over into a normal dive. An) pilot would be hard put to think of a more dangerous stunt that can be done with ar airplane...
...this point, the movie cries for woo and woe. Both are obligingly served forthwith. As a knowledge-spouting (her defense against wolves) TV career woman, Cyd Charisse pops up to convince Kelly that, for her sweet sake, he cannot let his fighter take a dive. Dailey also has a crisis: the star of his outrageously successful TV program, Midnight with Madeline (a part that features some fine burlesque by Dolores Gray), temperamentally revolts against her prospective guest of the evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing...