Word: dived
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...feel much better now. The only problem is, every time anybody mentions the Army, I dive for cover. My roommates watched The Green Berets in my living room yesterday afternoon. I watched from under the couch...
...fashioned scuba equipment would have permitted only a daily 45-minute dive to the ship's depth, but both methods are dangerous. A saturated diver forced to leave the pressurized chamber before a final 50 hours of decompression could explode internally because of rapidly expanding bodily gases...
Meanwhile, the bond market was also hit hard. Bonds have been slumping in value since last summer because of the expectation of ever higher interest rates, and last week they took another big dive. IBM triple-A bonds maturing in the year 2004 slumped 3.7%, to 68½, thereby currently yielding 14.2% to any investor interested in buying them. Bonds of Mountain States Telephone, a Bell System subsidiary, dropped 3.1%, pushing the yield on long-term securities maturing in the year...
...running horse suggested aggression, power and turbulence. The diver, perhaps predictably, evoked loneliness and despair: "readying himself for a suicide leap," "on top of a cliff, thinking about life after death." Said a husband: "All I see is a man on a board going to dive...
...that is designed specifically to sink big new carriers. Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet navy, has written that "a single submarine is capable of destroying a major surface ship with a salvo of cruise missiles." And the Soviets' "Oscar"-class submarines, put into service last year, can dive deeper and swim faster than anything the U.S. has produced...