Word: dive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartbreaking side of it was the innocence and misdirected sense of adventure with which most boys & girls began: the New York hearing made it obvious that many started in the same spirit in which they might have tried a high dive, swallowed a goldfish or taken up a fad for wearing pink bobby socks. In many a school it was a badge of daring and popularity. One student wrote in a theme: "I know that there is about four ways you can take it. Smoking, liquid, injecting and sniffing a powder. I know some friends that...
...Army veteran who had dropped $557 in a poker parlor came to the pastor with his tale of woe. George followed his directions ("Turn right at the top of the stairs, seventh door along the corridor on the right") and barged into a thriving dive just above the town's Bible Book Store...
...would probably be a mistake to dive into German as a concentrator without some acquaintance with the writers likely to be encountered. Germany has produced a few literary giants which are a delight but, especially during the last hundred years, it has nourished writers less interesting and satisfactory to some students than their counterparts in France, America, Russia, and England...
Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
Pete Dillingham placed fifth in the three meter dive in the national A.A.U. championship swimming meet at Ohio State Saturday night. The Crimson finished 11th in the meet with a total of two points. Skippy Browning of Texas won both the one and three meter dives...