Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fearing to be murdered by one of the king's henchmen, Slade has small thanks for his services to democracy. "Nada, Senor," says a philosophical waiter. "There is no importance." The waiter sums up the book well enough; even when turned upside down, given a dash of Psychopathia Sexualis and a medium-sad ending, these refugees from Graustark are still from Graustark...
...center Paul Birdsall, playing his last House hockey game, scored twice in 30 seconds--at 6:15 and 6:45 of the last period--to tie and then to win the game. Only a minute earlier, defenseman Clark Cowan had brought Eliot back to life with a rink-length dash that netted the second Mastodon goal...
Homeward bound and off the mouth of the Amazon one day in 1898, Slocum sighted the battleship Oregon heading toward him. On the last lap of her dash from the Pacific to get into the Spanish-American War, the Oregon hoisted the signals "C B T" which meant "Are there any men-of-war about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three...
...Garden, Carter and Geick will also run the 50-yard dash, and Harvey Thayer and Ronnie Berman should do well in the 600 against favored Charley Moore of Cornell, holder of four major championships. Charley Durakis and Pat McCormick are entered in the hurdles...
...whole plant, even the lavatories, swarms with watchful Geiger counters. They are usually clicking phlegmatically, but they can roar a sudden warning if anything goes wrong. In each building is a place on the floor marked "shower." A worker who has spilled a dangerous substance on his clothes can dash to the shower and drench himself with life-saving water...