Word: divingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their homes, Britons pulled table like, steel-legged Morrison shelters into living rooms, broke off conversations to dive under them at every roar. In pubs and cafes, chatter stilled while diners and drinkers ducked under tables...
...Normandy last week Colonel General Friedrich Dollmann, commander of the German Seventh Army, was killed-possibly by specially briefed Allied dive bombers. Colonel General Eduard Dietl, commander of Germany's seven divisions in Finland, was killed somewhere in an air crash, apparently in Finnish Lapland (although some reports said Austria). Russia's netful of captives for the week included a General Gollwitz, commanding the 53rd Army Corps...
...kept alongside, and tried to suggest different stunts to put out the fire. Step out to the right or to the left. Dive. Pick up speed to put out the flame. But nothing seemed, to work...
...their own fuel), but a jet-propelled missile which carries 136 gallons of gasoline, has a range of about 150 miles and a speed of 200 to 300 m.p.h. The length of its flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket hut must remain within range of enemy flak and planes...
...Sometimes, despite a surplus of power, a plane in a dive can go no faster and may actually begin to lose speed...