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Word: splashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite the unfinished business of the Sprints, Radcliffe finished off its season with a big splash, tossing struggling 6-ft. coach Carie Graves into the drink with somewhat less aplomb than if she were a winning coxswain...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Over the Bounding Main | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...sloop, Euphoria II. There aren't but a half-dozen memorable lines on the new album, and even fewer musical quirks, like the cello (the cello??) that follows Buffett down one of his trademark Acapulco cliff-diving voice drops at the end of a line and flattens out the splash. This is shrimpboat country rock all right, but it's all cluttered up with the latest radar and range-finders (like manager Irving Azoff, who flies the Eagles among others), automatic net-spreaders (the Margaritaville sound, over and over), and a string quartet on the fantail...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...Bogeyl Contact! I have a Judy at 2 o'clock! Splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: War at 33 Miles a Minute | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...enemy plane-a "Judy" in U.S. airmen's jargon-67° to the right of his aircraft and that the missile he fired sent the enemy spiraling into the sea. Flying at speeds of up to 2,000 m.p.h.-33 miles a minute-the pilot got his splash faster than it took him to tell about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: War at 33 Miles a Minute | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Judy Carpentier made a huge splash in the 50-yd. butterfly. Her time of 0:28.97 broke the record...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Women Swimmers Flounder at Yale | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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