Word: doves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy Cannon, of the New York Post, and another correspondent also asked for a lift. Cannon, wise to the fact that a jeep's only comfortable seat is the front one, announced that it should go to the oldest man present. Whereupon, he gave his age (41) and dove for the seat. Under his own rules, however, he had to relinquish it to Osborne, who is 43. Osborne got the break that time, but he maintains that front line war coverage is basically a job for young reporters...
Sandwiched between the brash novelties and love-dove schmalz on the bestseller lists last week was a prayer set to music. Its composer was no professional songwriter. She was a 42-year-old Cincinnati housewife named Gladys Gollahon, wife of a bus driver and mother of three children. Her song, Our Lady of Fatima, was the more-or-less accidental result of her own prayers...
Santa Rita used to be in Albuquerque, where her bird was thought to be a dove. Now that she has moved to Socorro and the rainmaking studies are going full blast around her, it has been noticed that her bird looks more like a duck. It holds its head back on its shoulders in a way doves seldom do. Dr. Workman considers this apparent metamorphosis a favorable omen...
...shot down his first German plane, an Albatross single-seater, on April 29, 1918. He dove his Nieuport out of the sun until he was less than 150 yards from his quarry before he opened fire...
...order over the intercom: "Abandon ship." Then he cut in the automatic pilot. In the radio compartment just abaft the pilots' seats, Staff Sergeant Vitale Trippodi tied down his radio key to keep a signal on the air as long as the aircraft was 'aloft, and dove for the escape hatch. Within seconds, all 17 aboard had leaped into a 55-mile gale, drifted down into the wilderness of Princess Royal Island, off the coast of British Columbia, 450 miles northwest of Seattle. It was a few minutes before midnight...