Word: diving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pete Haskell, jumping from about 2,300 feet above the white cross target area, landed within eight yards of the center of the cross to take first place in the spot jump event. Crimson chutist Dick Tompkins came down 13 yards from the target center, to win the sky dive-spot event...
...swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass...
...however, to amuse a colleague of Capone's named Machine Gun Jack McGurn, who in a fit of pique caused Lewis' brains to be rearranged with pistol butts and his voice box to be sliced very fine indeed. After that, hardly able to talk. Lewis took a dive into the nearest bottle and pulled the cork in behind him-or so the script says...
Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai, a man often assailed in the Middle East as a U.S. puppet, held a press conference in Amman, and U.S. prestige took another nose dive. The manner of the U.S. arms delivery, with U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory and a gaggle of Jordanian notables watching from a special dais alongside the Amman airfield runway, had made an "unfortunate impression" in his country, said Rifai. "We do not feel justified," he said, "in interfering in the internal affairs of Syria." After routinely thanking the U.S. for the arms, he went on to suggest that they...
...whose jaws were both inflation and deflation, whose effects make a case study for economists. From the headquarters of roads from Boston to San Francisco came gloomy news of a sharp setback in earnings: a 40% decline for the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, a 60% nose dive for the New York Central, 15% for the Santa Fe, 25% for the Rock Island, 11% for the Boston & Maine. All told, said the Association of American Railroads, railroad profits for the first six months of 1957 have declined $61 million from 1956 levels. Worse yet, twenty-one Class...