Word: dives
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts consider the best white jazz cornetist in the business,* grinned sheepishly. It had been just 30 years since Muggsy Spanier first split the smoky air of a dive in his native Chicago with a broad burst of brass...
...undergoing such hardships, and she spends the first half of the picture being assaulted by the animals of the forest, including the hero, I suppose, and the second half suffering from fatigue and exhaustion. The end result in every case is a sharp cry and a headlong dive into the arms of her bronzed guide...
...Hornblower series, to take up a cold contemporary potato like Randall? Says Forester: to convey the impact of fate on a man "who has lived through the wars and the depressions." In two projected novels, Randall is due for a flyer in high finance and a dive into the submarine campaigns of World...
Commanding the four Shooting Stars, Major Evans G. Stephens, a Texan, and his wingman, Lieut. Russell Brown of Pasadena, Calif., saw two Communist jets pull out of a dive 50 miles south of the Yalu and turn toward the river at the Americans' altitude, closing fast. Said Stephens afterwards, "Brown and I were between the enemy jets and the river. I called to the rest of my flight to come on up-we have two of them cornered...
...first Red jet got past Stephens, who "pulled the second MIG into my sights and fired. Debris flew off his wing tip and he went into a dive and got away across the border." Brown, meanwhile, was on the tail of the first enemy. Said Brown later: "He was diving at a near vertical angle. I figured we were both doing more than 600 miles an hour. Anyway, the last time I looked at the airspeed indicator it was registering 600 and I think I picked up speed after that...