Word: divers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diver who bubbles up to the microphone signs off by saying: "I'm going down now, sir." Chaplains and fellow Tommies often heard the same line, said with a brave try at lightheartedness, from the wounded or dying...
Testing her over the mile and three-sixteenths run at Pimlico were two he-horses : the stallion Devil Diver, the gelding Megogo. They should have known from past experience that Susie's soft brown eyes belied her power and drive...
Susie exploded from the starting gate with her wobbly ears cocked forward, her long stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...
Aided by Actor Robinson's restrained and realistic performance, the pressure of Producer Johnson's story mounts almost to the breaking point. Then, like a decompression chamber to a diver with the bends, a skillfully managed trick ending brings relief...
...went for a swim in the surf at Ocean Park near Los Angeles. No one saw her come out. For over a month the nation's front pages were frenzied. The Angelus Temple's faithful paraded the beaches mourning loud & long. A girl committed suicide and a diver was drowned. Then, 36 days later, Aimee reappeared in Agua Prieta, Mexico, just across the border from Douglas, Ariz. She had, she said, been kidnapped, but how or by whom nobody could find out. There were suggestions that Sister Aimee was the veiled woman who had been seen at Carmel...