Word: splashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other cutbacks. Very quietly, the Administration has also asked Congress for permission to "postpone" the spending of $32 million designated for Customs to use this year. This would mean that Customs would have to restrict flights of the Hawkeye radar planes it has just received with such a splash from the Navy...
...only other highlights for the home team came in the two diving events, when the Explorers' John Madden--no relation to the famous big-splash diver and sports announcer--notched the top spot in both the one-and three-meter boards. Sophomore Pat Healy of Harvard placed second in both competitions...
WILL VINTON started out smail, an unknown with a lotta heart and guts to spare. His first effort, crude, untutored, won an Oscar. Okay, it's inconsequential, a tiny splash in that shark-infested pond called Show Business, but it was something. A start. A beginning. And now, after years of hard work, he's hit the big time--Domino's Pizza commericials...
...next phase was to ingratiate myself with the Russian public. I thought back to successful American politicians and what they had done to make a splash. There was Washington--he founded the country. But it seemed a little late for that in Russia...
This professor gets the splash of red ink and cod scallops, and maybe some guacamole too if he continues to speak longer than a few minutes after the class is supposed...