Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mielziner's sets and Miles White's costumes splash Carousel with color, and Agnes de Mille's dances-particularly a fine lively hornpipe-give it a pulse...
When the Maritime Commission in 1937 set out to rejuvenate"the creaking U.S. Merchant Marine, Ingalls saw his chance to get into shipbuilding with a splash. In 1939 he formed the subsidiary Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., and spent some $500,000 for a yard at Pascagoula. It was a good investment. He landed a $10 million contract for four C-3 type freighters. The first of the batch, the Exchequer for the American Export Lines, was the largest all-welded merchant ship ever built in the U.S. When war came Pascagoula got all the business it could handle...
...kneed, rusty-haired Alan Robert Ford. During the past month, his last at Yale, he has taken a final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster than any human ever swam...
...pinochle deck (i.e., two ordinary 52-card decks with all cards below the nine discarded), every deal is bound to provide a fistful of aces, kings and queens. Bridge players, accustomed to holding a number of "bust" hands during an evening of play, will perk up at such a splash of face cards. Then, too, whereas bridge games often drag out as hands are passed because they are too evenly distributed, almost every Check deal gives either side a chance to bid and make a contract...
...Town (book and lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less...