Word: splashing
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Therefore, this week, two tournaments that caused no great splash in former years have unusual interest: the National Professional championship and the National Clay Court championship...
...remembered the somewhat terrifying sound of the Memorial Chapel bell just outside his window on the first morning, and then the comfortingly regular quarter-hours ringing out from Saint Paul's, the clatter of plates mingling with the rumble of voices in the Union, and the regular splash-swish-creak of his oars in sculling...
...rather tell back on a listing of grievances adding up to what appeared to be an attack on the personal qualifications of Professor Casner. An editorial which is capable of such misinterpretation--if misinterpretation it was--would seem to be the result of a higher regard for journalistic "splash" than for solution of the problem at hand. Phil C. Neal 11, Elliot L. Richardson 11, Roger Schafer...
...thankless role, the real heroes of Captains are Director Michael Curtiz and his five cameramen, who caught the matchless greens and browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...
...Several sailors had succeeded in getting off a small motorboat. . . . Trying to splash toward it, I went under again. . . . A score of others had the same idea. . . . Finally the motorboat tipped over, hurling us all into the sea.* I saw the black silhouette of a destroyer about 75 yards ahead. . . . I managed to propel myself forward and hang on to a ladder, safe, but so spent I couldn't pull myself up. At that moment a life raft drifted against the destroyer's side. It banged my head against the warship and I cried out time and again...