Word: splash
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Things went on in this vein for a few more songs. From where I was standing in back (out of the splash zone) I got a pretty good view of the crowd. They seemed surprisingly unaffected by the carnage onstage. Most of these straggly teenagers weren't laughing, they weren't flinching, they just sort of bounced to they beat. They didn't appear to be viewing this with quite the sardonic enthusiasm of most fans of cult culture...
Being aware offers little protection to those who fall prey to the kissing bug in Southwestern states. The dark brown insect, featuring a protruding proboscis and a splash of orange at the edge of its wings, strikes at night, quietly feasting on the blood of the slumbering victim. Most involuntary donors awaken the next morning itching from what seems to be a mosquito bite. But some immediately develop alarming and occasionally fatal allergic symptoms. Dr. Jacob Pinnas of the University of Arizona suggests that kissing- bug deaths may be underestimated. Some people who die in their sleep and have their...
...apotheosis last week when Richard Cook, 16, sprayed the wrong guy with a high- power water gun and ended up in a Harlem hospital with a real 9-mm bullet lodged in his back. The new generation of water weapons, with their bulbous tanks and high-pressure air pumps, splash so hard, squirt so far and are so wildly popular (Larami's Super Soaker is the fastest-selling summer toy in the U.S. for the second year in a row) that some public officials fear the summer may be not just long and hot, but dangerously wet as well...
...knees can bother me. I thought about it, and I asked the doctor about a replacement hip. But he said no. I take a little pain-killer now and then." No food or drink is off limits, Bush says. "Peppers? I love peppers, and I love hot sauce. I splash Tabasco all over...
...mystical status Gatorade reached in 1987, when football's New York Giants began dousing coach Bill Parcells with a conspicuously labeled vat of the stuff near the end of every winning game. Since then, teams at many levels have adopted that ceremony, helping Gatorade make an ever bigger splash in the market...