Word: dived
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Iraq from the Jews and the infidel." The second tape shows a group of 15 uniformed men practicing advancing under fire in a lush grove of trees and tall grass. In another scene, recruits navigate an obstacle course that requires them to climb stairs, crawl under barbed wire and dive through a flaming hoop...
...Link will point to solutions for some of the Great Lakes' continuing problems. With the expedition only a third over, researchers were already counting it a success. Richard Cooper, a marine biologist at the University of Connecticut and the scientific director of the project, declares that before the last dive, "we expect Mother Superior to yield up more of her secrets. We're finding things that will rewrite the book on ecology in the Great Lakes." --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Marquette
...football and basketball, say, Gale Sayers' and Elgin Baylor's full splendor may be inferred from a single move. But a rooftop homer might have sprung from anyone who ever hit a home run, or from Henry Aaron, who hit 755; and while making one swan dive in the outfield, even Tommie Agee or Ron Swoboda of the Mets is the equivalent of the Giants' Willie Mays. Baseball players plainly cannot be known at a glance. "Every player, good or bad, at one time or other has played like a Hall of Famer and a Hall of Shamer." This...
...major plates and several smaller ones, which range in thickness from 20 miles to 150 miles. These sections float on a gooey layer of partly molten rock known as the asthenosphere. As they move in different directions at an average speed of several inches a year, the plates collide, dive under and buckle against one another, crinkling up into a mountain range here, yanking apart to form a rift valley or oceanic ridge there. Such tectonic clashing was responsible for the violent earthquake that shook Mexico City two months ago, when the Cocos plate of the Pacific, temporarily stuck...
...other clubs) and his strikeout-to-walk ratio was 2.2 (5.9 against the rest of baseball). The Sox all stand well back in the box against Rivera now, and the lefties are opening up to better catch the cutter. All the hitters are allowing the borderline cutters to dive out of the strike zone if that's what it wants to do; they're the only ones in the league with the confidence to show patience against Rivera. Mariano knows they've got a strategy with him, and he approaches the Red Sox, now, with uncharacteristic hesitation. This story will...