Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Splash!" Speaking to the Sisters of Nevers, the Pope recalled the institute maintained by the same order in Venice. "They enlarged it here and enlarged it there-until finally the good sisters had to stop because Venice is on the sea and splash! they ran the risk of falling in." He concluded: "Now let us pray for you, for your families, and also for the Pope-because, to tell the truth, I want to live a long time. I like to live...
...converted brownstone. ("Harry is the only millionaire in America," said a friend at the time, "who goes down to the cellar to empty his own garbage.") Since then they have moved into a more luxurious, ten-room apartment on Manhattan's West End Avenue (there was a splash of newspaper publicity when the landlords on the fashionable East Side refused to rent to a Negro family). Belafonte has collected contemporary paintings and Haitian sculptures, in the vocabulary of his trade cares little for clothes (twelve suits, eight sports jackets, three tuxedos), owns no real estate. He drinks little...
...Freshman squad will splash off against the Bruins an hour earlier...
...Bali, "island of the gods," 100 barefoot maidens in sarongs swiveled up and offered silver bowls filled with flowers to Yugoslavia's President Tito, 66, and Indonesia's President Sukarno, 57. Then host and guest retired to the new palace at Tampaksiring, where at sunset maidens splash naked in Roman-style baths beneath Sukarno's windows. With food and music furnished by Sukarno, champagne and slivovitz brought in off Tito's ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with...
Your comprehensive and accurate view of Mexico today is tarnished by your cover painting splash of President López Mateos...