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Word: divingability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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It had been a long dry spell, nearly three years without a tournament victory, for Golfer Jerry Pate. So when the drought was finally broken with a win in the Danny Thomas-Memphis Classic, Pate made up for it, striding right off the 18th green and diving into a lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making a Splash | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

I Was glad, five years after the fact, that I'd never put much stock in the man as a kid. Next to Hemingway and Conrad, he was nothing. The closest the poor guy would ever come to Hemingway was his first name. The animals, I had been convinced from...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The Green Hills of Manhattan | 7/7/1981 | See Source »

This is all standard equipment, but the technicians responsible for the Bond films' felicities-car chases, aerobatics, all the sophisticated paraphernalia of Saturday-matinee thrills-have devised some splendid optional features for For Your Eyes Only. There is a funny-brutal pentathlon of alpine sports: cross-country skiing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Perpetual Motion Machine | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

A 5-ft., 2-in. left-handed shortstop steps up to the plate. It's a tie ball game--two-all in the fifth--and the infielders shout encouragement to the pitcher and heckle the diminutive hitter. Cheers resound from the batter's bench--"Come on Dr. longball, hit another...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Lisa 'Mouse' Bernstein | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

But then disagreement over a call ensued. Pompan, down 3-4, was visibly sparked by the controversy as he fought back to win the final point with an overhand slam and the set 6-4. In the third and crucial set, intense volleys and diving saves resulted in a 6...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Persecute Quakers, Retain Unstained Ivy Record | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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