Word: splashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie Thom, of course, was on hand for that very first Walker Cup Match, played in 1922, at the National Golf Links next door to Shinnecock. Thom could have ably represented either side, but the man who made the biggest splash in the first contest was not even slated as a competitor...
...simpler, cleaner-looking environment. Managing Editor Henry Grunwald finds the new design "neat and orderly. It should encourage discipline and emphasize organization, which is at the heart of the newsmagazine principle. But this sense of order will not inhibit us. Quite the contrary, it will make the occasional splash, the bold visual gesture easier...
Plainly, Jimmy Carter has been quick to master a lesson learned by many of his predecessors: it is far easier for the occupant of the Oval Office to make a heady splash in world affairs than to steer domestic programs through the churning seas of special interests, congressional egos and conflicting political pressures. In foreign and military affairs, a President can snap out orders and, for good or ill, things happen; his envoys and messages race round the globe...
...DOES, he risks the chance that someday when no one is around to shield him, the screws will drag him into a closet and "gang-splash" him, like they did Mona. So Smitty submits. But not for long, as Queenie convinces him that he could become a "politician" and a "hippo," too. The next time Rocky calls him to the shower, Smitty acquaints his patron with the floor of the crapper--and now he's the "old man" in the block...
...been harder hit by the two-year drought than Marin County. Strict rationing has been imposed, with water priced as high as $50 per 100 cu. ft. for those who exceed their allotments. The first bills under the new plan arrived last week, and some of them made a splash...