Word: splashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final extra-league splash before taking on Pennsylvania this Saturday, the Crimson swimmers meet a fair team from Springfield College at 8 p.m. tonight in the Blockhouse. Harvard will once again be heavily favored...
...Juilliard made its first big splash three seasons ago by performing a cycle of the six quartets of Bela Bartok for the first time in the U.S., and playing them in a ruggedly impressive manner. With the last note, Russia's Dmitri Shostakovich, who was in Manhattan for a peace-front powwow, rushed backstage with congratulations. A Columbia Records executive signed them up for recordings...
...come to the biggest difference between the New York teams. Mueller, whose ability to splash singles into holes had earned him the nickname of "Mandrake the Magician," was replaced by a third-baseman, a pitcher-outfielder-failure, and two pinch-hitters. These substitutes made two hits in twenty tries and three errors in ten tries...
...strangely camera-shy fashion. An Italian newsreel cameraman managed to get some pictures, only to lose them when a bodyguard snatched the film. Two other photographers in a rowboat had better luck when they caught Churchill in the surf, where the only thing he could do was splash water at them. He cooled his nerves later in the casino, where he played roulette until...
Winner of the first prize ($750) in the 12-to-16 age group was an Austrian boy named Franz Luttenberger, who did a happy gouache of his village. The other top prize went to a six-year-old French boy, Alain Cardot (4-to-11 class) for a spirited splash of workmen clambering over a half-built house. Alain was in seventh heaven. He lives in a cramped Paris tenement with his father, who is a pensioned French Resistance veteran, his mother and a sister. Said Alain: "Now, mama, I will buy you a bigger house...