Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the above talk would apply to any new House--and Quincy is more than any new House. It's unique; it's a "modern" House. And the "modern" look has made no little splash with the applicants. "I want to live in the 20th century, not in some stuffy ivy-covered copy of Mount Vernon." "What's so great with the entry system, anyway? Personally I don't like stairs." "It's the modern look that hit me; the duplex rooms are 'glamor plus'--real appealing...
...nature. Antimatter is annihilated instantly when it hits ordinary matter. But antimatter particles arriving from space may penetrate the earth's thin outer atmosphere to the 120,000-ft. level without suffering fatal collisions. If one of them hits the photographic plates, it should make a tremendous splash...
...gloomy forecasts of a $12.2 billion budget deficit for fiscal 1959. ending next June 30. Reason: budget experts figure that the economy's bounceback toward robust health will raise the 1959 federal-tax take at least $2 billion above September estimates, will thereby hold the red-ink splash to $10 billion or less...
...principal message of this first novel by 26-year-old Radcliffe Graduate Rona Jaffe: heaven no longer protects the working girl, and the corner drugstore is not always successful either. Author Jaffe's working girls are all the sad young women who splash to Manhattan like tender young salmon, desperately eager to find a man and spawn, in wedlock but not necessarily in Westchester. In the meantime they take office jobs and go cummings' Cambridge ladies one worse by living two to a furnished soul...
...moments, and moments only, Cheever's characters can be possessed by joy, reveling in the "idle splash and smell of a heavy rain" or scenting on some passing breeze "the salt air in the churches of Venice." But guilt and remorse close in like sudden fog, a free-floating guilt that seems to swirl around some atavistic memory of the Good Life. Thus an errant wife who has drunk and danced through the night is startled by the birds of dawning: "The pristine light and the loud singing reminded her of some ideal-some simple way of life...