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Word: divingability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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So far, the PTSD claim has been used only in cases involving violence. But in Tindall's drug-smuggling trial, Lawyer Oteri will try to stretch this defense much further. He contends that his client, now a charter airline pilot whose avocations include diving off cliffs and exploring underwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Pleading PTSD | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

Training of S.A.S. recruits-all volunteers from other British army regiments-is exceedingly rigorous. The initial four-week selection course has a 90% failure rate. For starters, recruits are sent crawling through noxious sheep-dips and marching over mountainous terrain in Wales carrying 55-lb. backpacks on a 37%-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain's S.A.S.: Who Dares Wins | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Doctors pumped mixtures of helium, nitrogen, and oxygen into the chamber to simulate various ocean depths. The dive originally had been planned for only 1500 feet but after a successful air misture was found using helium, to replace nitrogen, the divers and doctors agreed to try to surpass the previous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diving Record | 4/19/1980 | See Source »

The author focuses on one poet at a time, though her occasional allusions to others are not disconcerting but enhancing, for the most part. One of the few unsettling references in all of these reviews emerges in her long evaluation of Adrienne Rich's Diving Into the Wreck. In it...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: A Poetry Party | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

With the points all totalled for the final time this season, the Florida Gators, Swimming World Magazine's top pick for the gold in this year's race for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship, packed for home with only a third place finish while the truly Golden Bears from...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Golden Bears Retain Crown | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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