Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evert does not have to wait long for another big test. It starts next week when the U.S. Open begins at Forest Hills, where she made her first big splash two years ago. Whatever happens at Forest Hills, Evert's future is unquestionably bullish. Chrissie the pro is far more accomplished than Chrissie the amateur, and has time to overcome her remaining flaws: a reluctance to rush the net aggressively, a volley that too often fails and a serve that too seldom overpowers. Over the past two years, she has shot up 3/2 in. and added...
...while another is suspected of navigating a lobster boat-long after the lobster season has ended. Not every mobster can afford to "suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built in Brooklyn, where there is always the danger of running into a water...
That will enable the astronauts to splash down closer to the California coast (300 nautical miles southwest of San Diego instead of the planned 1,000 miles) and reduce their long, wearying trip aboard the recovery carrier...
Bonnie and Clyde. It made a bloody splash when it came out, but all its blood must be old hat by now. Faye Dunaway talks tough, Warren Beatty thinks with a soft brain, C.W. Moss steals the show. Orson Welles...
...from Lincoln-Sudbury, Mary Feeney, 17, wipes off the counter at Mike's Place and serves a customer another cheeseburger. "I guess you could say we don't make a big splash," she says of her graduating class at Newton High School. "One of my main interests is karate; it's a great way to develop discipline, grace and coordination. Maybe in a year I'll go to college, but right now I'm happy to be the person I am. As long as I can have a comfortable life and be satisfied with myself...