Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ASDIC could hear the destroyer coming, coming, and he reported: "Destroyer closing, destroyer closing," and you knew sooner or later it would be over the top. Then you hear the sort of faint splash-splash of the propeller getting faster and faster. This is the most frightening time. You hear this thing going over and you wonder, "Has he dropped it now?" I forget how many depth charges were dropped, 40 or 50. I remember saying to myself: "This is hell, and I am not going to stay in submarines any more. I just can't take...
...Marines' confidence rose. They wondered if the Japs, who undoubtedly knew that the Americans were coming, might now have evacuated Tarawa as they had Kiska. Then, suddenly, a great splash kicked up the sea a few hundred feet from one transport, only 50 feet from another. The Japs were firing their coastal guns. Betio would not be another Kiska, after...
Patrice is as choice a bloom as any in the recent bevy of young sopranos. Only child of a Spokane, Wash., dentist, Patrice made her first splash six years ago when she sang before the Spokane Citizens' Club. Before she was 14 she had become a ballet and tap dancer, and an expert in what she calls "artistic whistling." For the past three years she has lived in Manhattan with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson...
From his Hobart College days, Pardue has set an example of muscular Christianity. In 1919, he was the A.A.U.'s Middle Western breaststroke champion. He still goes almost daily for a half-hour splash in the Buffalo Athletic Club's pool. His wife (Dorothy Klotz) won Grantland Rice's rating of third best woman golfer in the U.S. in 1928. In all his parishes he has pushed amateur athletics...
...entered the cockpit. I pushed over, skidded away and went into a steep dive at 500 feet. I barely managed to mush out at 50 feet over the water. The Zero had less luck, I guess. At least he wasn't there when I looked-just a big splash...