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Word: diving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, the return to the circus finds her in her ultimate imprisonment, at the top of the circus in a cage. Her dive into a tiny net is the last necessary step in the circus act (which is also the act of re-creating her life)' the audience demands it as part of the romantic spectacle. Since it might cause her death, Lola's dive is also a potential act of suicide and escape, the most desperate of all romantic acts. At the same time the ringmaster is forcing her to jump. As he counts to three, the frame tilts...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montes | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

Obvious result: GM sales take a dive. Jeanine breaks with her family in Boston and joins the group in picketing Wall Street. The picket signs are doomful, sarcastic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Goodbye GM' | 5/15/1969 | See Source »

...UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Cousteau crew goes to Peru to dive for lost Incan gold in "The Legend of Lake Titicaca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...Saturday, Bill Murphy of Harvard had to settle for a fourth-place finish in his specialty, the three-meter dive. Murphy's rival from Dartmouth, Mike Brown, was the three-meter victor, though the Crimson star beat Brown in a dual meet two weeks...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Tankmen Tenth in Eastern Seaboards Despite Setting Six Harvard Records | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

Murphy, Eastern champ in the three-meter dive two years ago, has just perfected a double-twist dive for use in the one-meter competition. "Bill looks really loose and his timing is great," assistant coach Benn Merritt said last night. "With this new dive, I expect him to win the one-meter as well as the three-meter," Merritt said...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Eastern Seaboards Begin; Murphy to Lead Tankmen | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

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