Word: splat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...romancer, the damaged elevator that dangled so defectively in Hotel might have fallen in the first chapter, or not at all. Hailey brought it out of its holding pattern at exactly the right moment, a dozen pages before the end, and all of the plot elements fell into place: splat. Thus the reader is only mildly alarmed when, after several chapters of Wheels, Hailey's new novel about the auto industry, the president of General Motors has not reappeared. He was there on the first page, sleepy and cross because a defective electric blanket had given...
...have love affairs." The old Nicholson "used to rant a lot of politics" and had a temper that went off like a Roman candle. A waitress in Hollywood once brought him a well-done steak and proceeded to claim that it was rare. Nicholson protested, spluttered, and then -splat!-the steak hit the restaurant ceiling. "I don't throw steaks around the dining room any more," says Nicholson. His outbursts nowadays have a purpose. Recently, while filming in Vancouver, Nicholson was out walking and stopped at a country club for a glass of water. The bartender refused because Nicholson...
...Reds' Pete Rose singled, advanced to second, and then came barreling for home on a single to centerfield by the Cubs' Jim Hickman. His way blocked by the Indians' Ray Fosse, Rose hurtled headlong into the burly catcher, knocked him into a somersault and landed splat on the plate for the winning run. "If I had slid," Rose said after the National League's 5-to-4 victory, "I would have broken both legs." As it was, Rose suffered a bruised thigh and Fosse a severely wrenched shoulder-injuries that will temporarily sideline both players...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson had just finished talking about how the rest of the world envied the British "for our tolerance, for our individual liberty, for our stability" when-splat!-a young Conservative hit him with an egg. At other rallies, the Prime Minister caught a soft-boiled egg on his shoulder and a hard-boiled egg on his ear, and his wife Mary was hit by a bag of talcum powder. So it went, as Britain plunged into a three-week national election campaign...