Word: splashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nazis coming back? Last week, commenting on West Germany's local elections, some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...
John received his biggest publicity splash in 1933, the day after Harvard upset Yale by a 19 to 6 margin. Two days before the game, some gentlemen from the Lampoon abducted the Eli mascot, Handsome Dan II, from his New Haven kennel. The Sunday following the game, newspapers all over the nation ran frontpage photos of Dan licking John's feet--or, at any rate, his pedestal. The pictures did not reveal the raw hamburger that was smeared at the base of the statute...
Crucial, as well, is maximum aid and encouragement to Japan, for as democracy's best advertisement in the Far East, our former enemy can influence many wavering states toward America. The defeat of the Japanese Communists, for instance, made a very large splash in Asiatic puddles. By Japan's example, then, and by Point IV and rigorous collective security assurances, typified by America's stake in Korea, the Stevenson administration can effectively counter the promises and the force of Communism...
...with the Queen." Ponsonby was not allowed to smoke, even when decoding dispatches in his own room; the stench, complained the Queen, permeated the papers. But, on occasion, footmen and Highland servants could get so drunk that a royal dinner was punctuated by .the crash of china and the splash of wine from wavering bottles...
Advertising revenue also was down; it was well below 1948, the year before Ruppel came in. But recently Ruppel ran into trouble from a different source. Last February, with a splash of full-page newspaper ads, Collier's touted a big exclusive: the inside story of "Mr. Big," described as the boss of "New York's sprawling, brawling, racket-ridden waterfront." In two articles, Collier's Star Crime Reporter Lester Velie identified "Mr. Big" as William J. McCormack, trucking, concrete and stevedoring contractor...