Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apollo 14 is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific south of American Samoa nine days after its liftoff. If its mission is successful, NASA hopes it will rekindle dwindling interest in manned lunar exploration. Space officials feel that if it is a failure, it may well be the last such moon mission of the decade...
...different problem: convincing people that he was wearing those broad-brimmed gangster hats and wide-lapel pin-stripe suits long before the movie Bonnie and Clyde came out. Chief ball hawk for the champion Knicks, Frazier says: "I dress kind of conservatively when we lose and I splash on the colors when we win." Since the Knicks are again runaway leaders, he is usually somewhere over the rainbow. He squires his girl friend around the discotheque circuit in his "Clydemobile," a white-and-canary Cadillac Eldorado that is a far cry from the Ford Pinto he pushes in TV commercials...
What happened to splash this sudden dazzle of national limelight over the nonentity from Pine Bluff...
...understand why he had come into the world without a voice. Everyone else seemed to have a voice. Why didn't he? "Fate is cruel," he thought. "Fate is cruel to me." . . . Soon they joined the others, and everyone started water games, and Louis joined in, dipping and splashing and diving and twisting. Louis could splash water farther than any of the others, but he couldn't shout while he was doing it. To be able to shout while you are splashing water is half...
Voices, indistinct, across dark water. One is heavy, asking; the other soft, answering. It is almost possible to make out words. Two boys, wild with the dark, swim near to listen, from the island where they have been camping. As they approach the neighboring island of the voices, a splash betrays them. The heavy voice rages. A shot slaps the water. The boys dive, frog-swim, drift, reach shore, and lie safe and ignorant in the chill. What were the voices saying...