Word: dived
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...urgent time of shared suffering and purpose. America delivered $11 billion in arms, grain and other supplies to keep the Soviets going. Allied convoys bringing supplies into Murmansk and Archangel through the Barents Sea sometimes lost as many as three-quarters of their ships to German dive bombers. Toward the end of the war, with the Americans rolling into Germany from the West and the Soviets from the East, Winston Churchill remarked: "I deem it highly important that we should shake hands with the Russians as far to the east as possible." The Allies had to settle for the Elbe...
...Jack must succumb even though he pursues his bachelor freedom across all of Europe in a touring car? She must be as delectable as strawberries and cream, a muse of delight, Goethe's "eternal feminine" luring men on. Sachs makes her predatory, poised like a pelican about to dive-bomb a poor fish. And Philip Bosco as the Devil displays an unctuous complacency that defeats the role...
Harvard dominated the 440 when Chris Nicodemus grabbed first place and Al Harrington made a desperation dive to take second in a photo-finish...
First, Angelone let the ball pop loose on a touchdown dive from the one to kill an Eli drive that had made the Harvard D look like tissue paper...
...canopies of World War II. Brightly colored, they are designed to allow the jumpers to maneuver on the way to earth. They float downward for two, maybe 2% minutes. Then they are upon you, the suspended jumpers emitting war whoops because it went well, they have made a good dive, and maybe because they are high on their own adrenaline and they feel so good. "We're all adrenaline junkies," says a jumper...