Word: splashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captivate tourists. First lecturer was the mayor himself, portly E. A. Bourque. Ottawans in general, the mayor told the class, should cut their lawns, paint their houses and keep their garbage cans out of sight. Above all, they ought to take care when driving through puddles not to splash pedestrians. "The people you splash might be tourists," he warned, "and tourists are highly insulted when splashed...
...Hasty Heart" didn't make much of a splash when it opened on Broadway a few seasons ago. John Patrick's play about a dour, friendless Scot in a British army hospital in Burma was perhaps a trifle unconventional for New York audiences. The fact that the Scot is slowly dying, although he doesn't know it, gave the play an undertone of tragedy. "The Hasty Heart" fared better in summer stock, where it has become a standby...
...swung his crutches over the puddle, lifting his cast and its wooly sock carefully so it wouldn't splash in the slush. The crutch tips banged solidly against the sidewalk; Vag raised them again, and then plunged them into the crust of melting snow at the end of a driveway...
From Germany a fortnight ago came a news report which made a brief page-one splash and then got lost in subsequent European dispatches. The story concerned an organization known as the Bruderschaft, or Brotherhood--a group of German generals and staff officers set up after the war to aid the widows and orphans of dead officers...
...nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under the Department of the Interior) where catfish, a man-eating piranha and a two-headed turtle sport and splash and amuse small boys...