Word: dived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colonial privilege that it has been portrayed, not an opulent anachronism in a world of nationalism. They point to the termites at work on their houses, the jungle growing up to the kitchen door, the "yacht club" at Gatun Lake that amounts to little more than a raft children dive from, while their parents drink beer and cook the family dinner: barbecued Panamanian beef. The club, like the zone's four non-military golf courses, was built by the employees, not the company...
...players. Moshell has scheduled a concert of all-meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...
...Seven members of the orchestra played the Schleptet in E flat, S.O., by musicologist Peter Schickele, more familiarly known as P.D.Q. Bach (1807 -- 1742), the last and the least of Johann Sebastian's sons. Satirizing serious music, the Schleptet demands a wide range of comic effects, including a nose-dive by the French horn player, which sends fragments of a collapsible horn sailing across the stage into the audience, and woodwind burps usually reserved for a beginner's practice room...
Ultimate frisbee is a non-contact sport, with players obligated to play the frisbee and not the man. Nevertheless, action often heats up as players use arm and leg blocks on defense, and jump and dive to catch or obstruct passes...
...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...