Word: dive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...padded steel clips to block his nostrils. In his hands he carried a 44-lb. spear gun, weighted with an extra 4.4 Ibs. of lead. Bucher. poised on the rail of the small ship bobbing in the rough water, was aiming to become the first man ever to "skin-dive" (i.e., without the aid of artificial breathing apparatus) deeper than...
Bucher's dive was not made solely as a stunt. It called attention to the efforts of a small group of fans in one of the world's hardiest sports: underwater game fishing. Backed in part by Italy's National Council of Scientific Research (and also by the Italian Olympic Committee), Bucher and a group of nine others are now planning the "first underwater big game hunt in history...
Late yesterday afternoon, Martin was "out for the season" and Yale hopes took a nose dive. In a scrimmage against the junior varsity he arm-tackled a runner and dislocated his left shoulder...
...soaring, British-made movie about supersonic aviation, gets off to a flying start. In a prologue before the credit titles come on the screen, a World War II Spitfire, cavorting above the English Channel, is almost torn to bits as it plunges into a wracking flat-out power dive and hits the turbulent shock waves of the sound barrier. The picture then goes on to the main body of its subject: the postwar conquest of faster-than-sound flight, which turned out to be the most significant event in the history of aviation since the Wright brothers took...