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Word: dives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two-Beat at Tiffany's | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/28/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something for the Gulls | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: We Have Them Cornered | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: We Have Them Cornered | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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