Word: diving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippine time when a small flight of Japanese planes pierced the defenses of "Taffy 3," a task unit of U.S. escort carriers east of Leyte. One nosed over into a power dive. As he held his target in sight, the pilot knew every second of the way that he was headed for death. Yet he kept going until he crashed and died amid fire and explosion in the side of the carrier St. Lo. The St. Lo sank. Over a 130-mile front, other Japanese planes dived against her sister carriers. That night, Oct. 25, 1944, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo...
Though Mexico is next door to the U.S., though millions of U.S. citizens have seen it themselves, the country south of the border is still mostly a colorful legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive 165 ft. into a surging wave at Acapulco. It is violent: the plump señora in the cartoon scolds her sombreroed husband as he cleans his pistol, saying "Oh, Pablo, you're not going back into politics!" In the cities it has modern hotels, traffic jams, skyscrapers...
...flying from Havana to the Cuban city of Cienfuegos eight months ago when rebels fighting for Fidel Castro popped up among the passengers, commandeered the plane, forced Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took a Cubana DC-3 up from the little, bullet-stippled...
...initial threat came early in the first period when John Damis ran 75 yards on a halfback dive to Princeton's one-foot line. In the next four plays the Yardlings managed to fumble twice and picked up six inches, handing the ball to the Tigers practically on their own goal line. In the second period the Yardlings were stopped with fourth down on Princeton's five...
Still another Crimson score came early in the last period as quarterback Ted Halaby bucked over from two yards out and fullback Joe Grew added two points on a dive. A pass from Myron Adams to end Pete Sieglaff ended the Yardlings' scoring...