Word: diving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German dive bombers roared off into the sky, and the stocky young woman-one of countless uprooted victims of the Nazi armies advancing into France-scrambled out of the ditch. Said calm Mathilde Carré to a companion: "There's almost a sensual pleasure in real danger, don't you think? Your whole body seems suddenly to come alive...
...people, including sportswriters, call him Willie, a name he detests; he prefers Bill, and the girls all call him Bill. His followers have a complaint as well. Too many people stake their cash on his talent, so the odds on a Hartack-ridden horse almost always take a dive before the field gets into the starting gate. This even Hartack deplores. "Every time I ride a horse that's a legitimate 4-toi shot," says he without unseemly modesty, "he comes up 8 to 5. Even I can't move a horse up that much...
...insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello. Mamie asked for an "idiot card" to cue her at the pool, and, added Executive Producer Jules Green, "make sure that the water is deep enough where she's supposed to dive...
...networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch-soaked hoods with six hostages as they held out in a tense siege by 150 real cops and FBI agents in an Inglewood dive just outside Los Angeles...
...Murray, Stanley, Perilman, and Boeckeler; second, Pennsylvania: Kuhl, Sieck, Norcross, and Barthel-Rose. Time--4:10.0. 220-yard free style--Won by Ulbrich (H); second, Seaton (H); third, Arndt (P). Time--2:17.8. 50-yard free style--Won by Zemo (H); second, Winthrop (H); third, Crosby (H). Time--23.9. Dive--Won by Gorman (H); second, Stone (H); third, Fox (P). 80.22 points. 200-yard butterfly--Won by Hammond (H); second, Mahoney (H); third, Hill (P). Time--2:28.6. 100-yard free style--Won by Mischner (H); second, Winthrop (H); third, Bay (P). Time--54.5. 200-yard backstroke--Won by Murray...