Word: divingability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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February 1977: Signing up with a booking agent for public appearances, he sets his fee: up to $10,000. Takers include Miss Piggy's Pizza Beauty Pageant in Boston and the Vancouver World Belly Flop and Cannonball Diving Contest.
Another glamour competition, men's swimming and diving, was ravaged by the U.S. boycott. Four years ago the U.S. swimmers won twelve of the 13 gold medals awarded, along with ten silver and five bronze; they added one gold and one silver in diving. There is so much depth...
From the start of his presidency, Jimmy Carter has had to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Brother Billy. Capitalizing on his instant notoriety as a colorful presidential next of kin, Billy Carter has done everything-for a fee-from judging belly-flop diving contests to promoting a beer...
Thirty yards out, he planted his left foot and booted the ball in a fierce low arc past the startled, diving Brand into the right corner of the goal. Chinaglia jumped, raised his hands over his head, and embraced the grinning Beckenbauer.
Back there, she drifted through a couple of jobs, then drifted away again with a guitar player she met at the county fair. They settled in Santa Cruz, and formed a rock band that allowed her to play around in a rubbed-raw Janis Joplin style. After she married the...