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Word: splashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about America. "All scugnizzi dream of going to America," he says. "Everybody in Naples does." Gradually he overcame their distrust, spent night after night huddled with them on bakery gratings. "When they rolled drunks or practiced immorality," he says, "I simply indicated indifference." In the cold dawn he would splash his face in street fountains before returning to his daylight duties (which included teaching 14 classes a week at a Roman Catholic college in Naples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Spinning Tops | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Boat Race 2:30 Saturday afternoon. CRIMSON, Lampoon, i.e., and Advocate. Not much speed but plenty of splash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

Australia, which has been passed up by most tourists in the past, expects that the 1956 Olympics will bring in many. Visitors follow the relaxed, happy life of Australians, splash in the surf that pounds its beaches, and go to see the original Teddy bears at the Koala Bear Sanctuary in Brisbane. More adventurous types can fly out to Hayman Island (round trip: $209) on the Great Barrier Reef, where there is a good hotel ($5 per day) and some of the world's best skindiving and big game fishing, or go on a three-week hunting trip (cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...town productions, from Munich, Germany to Pocatello, Idaho. At the Met she moved into many of the important second leads that inevitably fall to a contralto's lot. But to get her chance at the role she coveted most, she had to make a big splash overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Carmen at the Met | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...from the U.S. Air Force recently went a brief announcement: the U.S. was sending the first North American F-100 Super Sabrejet fighters to units in Europe; three demonstration planes were already overseas, with full squadrons to follow soon. The news caused little splash, yet it was one of the most significant announcements of the jet age. It meant that the whole new breed of radically advanced "century" series jets was coming into service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Supersonic Centuries | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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