Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shoes. Even with CompactPro (the small hard drive's friend), I was gasping for breath every time I tried to copy a new AfterDark file. My hard drive was also four years old, the age at which almost all of my friends' hard drives had taken a permanent nose dive. It did not bode well for thesis time...
...miles each week back and forth across Mississippi and Alabama from one to another of three of the abortion clinics he owns. In a typical year he will perform nearly 7,000 abortions and will make about $200,000. Protesters jam his car's locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture on it: notorious!! Working six days a week, his only real diversions are playing golf and spending each Tuesday night playing blackjack and craps at the Splash Casino...
...lost. He can still spare risky time to help others, like a child being ignored, at peril to his life, in an emergency room. He still has the recklessness that comes to people who have nothing left to lose (the most spectacular of his hair-breadth escapes is a dive into the torrent coursing over a dam hundreds of feet high). And he still has his own pursuit to pursue -- of the one-armed man whom he alone knows is his wife's actual murderer...
...early June, the four-ton, 30-ft.-long female minke whale was done with her winter sojourn in temperate waters. It was time to head back to the chilly Arctic for the summer. Traveling north, she and her fellow minkes would periodically dive down to gulp fish, then swim back to the surface to suck air through their blowhole -- for like all whales, minkes are air-breathing mammals. They followed an age-old migratory track, invisible to humans but as well marked as an interstate highway to the whales...
...parachuting. Flying out of the fast-rising center of a thermal, he was struck by heavy, cold air that bashed downward with more force than he had ever encountered. The nose of his glider was knocked from a 3- o'clock position, level flight, through 6 o'clock, full dive. This is called "going over the falls," and it's not a surprise to a good pilot. But Lee's glider was shoved so hard that it pivoted on to 9 o'clock, completely upside down. A few more degrees of rotation -- 10 or 11 o'clock -- and he would...