Word: dive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caldwell emphasized that injuries had increased and were more serious since the two-platoon system was abolished. Raimo agreed with him. Neither coach mentioned that their records had taken a nose-dive since the rule change...
...this time adding a dash of morphine. Within five minutes both were asleep. Athanassios lit two lanterns as a signal. Ashore, his waiting brother Christakis hastily stripped off his clothes, dodged into a doorway to avoid two approaching soldiers, then darted naked across 50 ft. of waterfront road to dive into the icy harbor. Soon afterward, Athanassios hauled him aboard the Dynamo. With engine snorting, running lights burning bright and passengers sweetly sleeping, the two brothers then set out for Greece...
...dropped out of formation in the turbulent air-probably because of engine or propeller trouble. It nosed down and glided full into a "stick" of floating paratroopers from the plane ahead. Dented and damaged by the impact of their bodies, it slid down in a long death dive and vanished behind the pine tops. A pillar of smoke rose in the distance. Ten dead men came down from the sky. Some, whose chutes had been chopped up, plummeted, some floated as casually as the living. Living jumpers from Plane No. 29 floated down, too; there had been...
Princeton took an immediate lead in the game, on successive plays by fullback John Futhey. On the opening play from scrimmage, Futhey plodded 50 yards to the Crimson three-yard line, and then followed with a dive over center for the touchdown. Jim Brechnitz failed on a quarterback sneak attempt for the extra point...
...Harman and another pilot were flying over the plant area when, at the low level of 200 feet, the engine stopped dead. Obedient to the untested theory they had been taught, and against all their natural instincts, the two tilted the copter downward and dived it at full speed straight for the ground. It worked: 20 feet from the ground the rotor blades, spun by the dive, acquired enough lift to break the fall. The craft smashed up, but Harman and his friend walked away, "just as the fire engines and ambulances came roaring...