Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dempster took to the Zambezi a service rifle. 4,000 rounds of war-surplus ammunition and a wooden dinghy with an outboard motor. He soon met an indignant bull-hippo, who immediately seized both the dinghy and the Zulu helmsman and tore them to pieces. Dempster also found that his...
Dempster bought a new aluminum dinghy. He bought soft-nosed bullets, which would blow a crocodile's head open. Finally, he outwitted the birds by hunting at night, a powerful hunter's lamp strapped to his head.
Following the varsity match, Bradford-Durfee Technical Institute nosed out the fishermen, 15 to 12. Bradford-Durfee took foil, sabre, and epee matches, all by scores of 5 to 4.
The beagle hound is a friendly, flop-eared little dog with a tail that wags with the furious regularity of a revving propeller. As the "harrier," he was bred in England and Wales at least 600 years ago to hunt small game; today he is equally at home on heath...
Boat whistles shrieked, gongs clanged, and bunting fluttered from every sampan as the LSTs bearing 14.000 Chinese P.W.s from Korea nosed into the gaily decorated pier. Flag-waving thousands lined the 20-mile route to Taipei; firecrackers were so thick that the prisoners waving from their trucks were often hidden...