Word: diver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evening Post: "A shining silver rectangle of metal sailed past over our right wing. I recognized it as a main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather jacket. He was evidently making a delayed jump. . . . A B-17 turned gradually out of the formation to the right, maintaining altitude. In a split second it completely vanished...
...hard for "Cap"' Tooker. who had superintended the long preparations and who now shared with the Navy's Captain B. E. Manseau the responsibility of the raising, to decide which was worse: the dirty work of getting ready, or the strain of the final stage. A diver himself, he knew the obstacles overcome, the risks yet faced. But for Tooker, and for the hundreds of men who had worked on, in, and under the prostrate ship, her first, slight lift of life was a triumph of patience and courage...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had lately christened a barge at Port Angeles, Wash., got a phone call after she arrived in Seattle : a diver had gone to the bottom of the harbor, brought up the handbag she had dropped (with her plane ticket, money and eyeglasses...
Lieut. Colonel Frank Kurtz, ex-Olympic high diver, pilot of the old Flying Fortress Swoose, which has "worn ruts" across the Pacific ferrying Lieut. General George Brett, former United Nations Air Force Commander in the Southwest Pacific, knew the story. He had flown the long battle of airfields from Clark Field in the Philippines to the bastion of Australia. This week the story was out, in a new book by War Correspondent W. L. White (They Were Expendable, TIME, Sept. 28). Using the formula that was such a sensational success in the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines...
...Diver: "To go into that cabin where, if I open the door, dead bodies of children will rush toward...