Word: dived
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...Teddy Roosevelt made a shallow dive in a primitive...
...Nellie Lawrence was too old to high-dive from Brighton's pier any longer; she and her sisters turned over Roedean to big-boned, red-cheeked Emmeline Tanner. Last week, at 70, stately, awesome Miss Tanner was ready in her turn to retire...
...Playwright Loos's Cinderellative, Actress Hayes is on an acting spree. The portrayer of such moral monuments as Queen Victoria and Harriet Beecher Stowe lets fly with a tipsy tango, bawls through the mike a specially written Rodgers & Hammerstein ditty, cuts up under a table, does a swan dive off a bar, sees bottles light up, hears a cash register strike up a tune. Actress Hayes is hardly a born vaudevillian, but she makes what is clumsy about her also seem comical; and she romps through her new role with the gusto of a paperweight that suddenly finds itself...
...rest of the first half saw Boston's eleven fought on almost even terms by the undersized Wentworth club, sparked by two light, swift backs and a seemingly unstoppable dive-duck pass. Stalled once on the visitors' 10-yard line, the Crimson was on defense for most of the second period...
Then the plane may flip in a violent roll, or snap into a dive as the wing loses its lift. Racked by enormous forces, the plane may suddenly disintegrate in midair...