Word: splashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months with the 45th Infantry Division in Korea, announced he was available for Yankee third-base duty until July 1, when he expects to quit baseball for full-time doctoring in the San Francisco Hospital. EURJ In New York, Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson, the two-fisted flailer who made a splash as a heavyweight recently (TIME, April 12), was finally stopped by a competent light-heavyweight named Jimmy Slade, who outboxed and outfoxed Jackson in a ten-round decision...
...younger generation of musicians, he had a strong bent for the moderns, the more "difficult" the better. He made his first big splash when he introduced the spectacularly demanding Bartok Concerto to the U.S. in Cleveland in 1943, continued to get billowing reactions wherever he played it. ("Was this the best since Heifetz," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein after a 1948 performance, "or was this just the best, period...
...Thanks to new splash gutters and overflow pipes, which carry off pool-edge turbulence...
...Bernarr ("Body Love") MacFadden, steadily ripening with age, asked Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee if he might celebrate his 86th birthday next August by parachuting into Great Salt Lake. The Utah Aeronautics Commission, to which Lee referred the request, turned thumbs down on MacFadden because he might splash too hard on the "heavy" salt water and thus harm the commission's policy of "aerial safety." Taking the news standing up, MacFadden rumbled: "If I really want to make the jump, I'll go out and make it. How can they stop...
...Senator: Samuel W. (for William) Yorty, 45, two-term Congressman from Los Angeles who made a brief splash in Washington last year by beating his party's leadership to the punch in denouncing Defense Secretary Wilson's Air Force cutback (TIME, June 1). When, at 27, Sam Yorty was elected to the state assembly, his reputation as a radical resulted in a charge before the Dies Committee that he was a Communist. In 1940 he veered so far to the right that he founded the assembly's Communist-hunting committee which rawhided Democratic Governor Culbert L. Olson...