Word: diving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Silverstein got it again. On antisubmarine maneuvers off Pearl Harbor, Commander Charles S. Swift, the skipper, looked up to see the sub Stickleback dead ahead at 200 yds. Stickleback had just made a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein, was supposed to have dived to a safe depth. Skipper Swift reversed all engines, but was too late to avoid chopping a fatal 4-ft.-wide gash in Stickleback's side. Before sinking to the bottom, Stickleback managed to surface under its own power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers...
...driving tennis balls at Diana's face. Husband No. 3 was almost as big a lush as Diana, and together they rapidly drank up all the money she had made and inherited. According to the script, she wound up doing take-offs (including clothes) in a Manhattan dive, and one night she ran amuck and wound up in the alcoholic ward. That's where the "unholy ghost" (as Author Frank is known on Publisher's Row) caught up with her and invited her to take the bestseller cure...
...seat sat his instructor, Captain Thomas Coryell, 29, charged with keeping an alert for other aircraft while his student practiced. At 8:28. Pilot Moran called the control tower at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas to report that he would now begin a "jet penetration," a procedural dive to 14.000 ft.; he headed down at about 280 knots...
...TIME agrees with Readers Naymola and their satisfied patrons that a man's own friendly neighborhood bar is never a dive...
...issue you referred to our cocktail lounge as a "dive just outside Los Angeles." We are the owners of the Beacon Cafe and we're pretty damn mad! We have one of the nicest, cleanest family bars in Inglewood, and our patrons are mad about this statement also...