Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President," she said, "is creating a handsome and responsible image of the American man." Ideally, she continued, men's styles should combine "Italian flair, classic British sobriety and American dash, functionalism and fit. In our President we have the man who fits this look perfectly." Only Irving Heller (sometime tailor for Harry Truman) demurred. He approved of the President's taste in shirts ("He has changed his collar space") but insisted that Kennedy's jacket buttons are "still...
...theory that marines do not pause in combat for pullups and pushups, he has discarded such exercises from the annual physical fitness tests, instead has his men climb ropes, march three miles, dash 50 yards to retrieve a presumably wounded buddy while being timed by a stopwatch. He works the men longer, stressing night training and field exercises...
...sprinkle the rice powder of angels on the soiled bed sheets," says Plumpfoot at the final curtain, "and turn the mattresses through blackberry bushes! All lanterns lighted! And with all power the pigeon flocks dash into the rifle bullets! And in all bombed houses, the keys turn twice around in the locks!" "Diffuse and absurd," wrote Vienna's Express, "grotesque and bacchantic...
...Washington. "The only perfect leap I ever saw. I'm sure he would have made it if the bar was at 16 ft. 4 in.-with a metal pole or any other kind." Rangy (6 ft. 1 in., 172 Ibs.) and well-knit, Uelses runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec., needs only an abbreviated, 104-ft. approach (standard: 130-140 ft.) to reach top speed. He gets so much lift that he needs only a cut-down, 14-ft. 11-in. pole to propel his body across a 16-ft.-high bar. Aloft he is unusually graceful...
When Dorothy Baker published Young Man with a Horn (1938), the thinly disguised story of the great jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, expectations for her future ran high. The book evoked the bravura of the jazz cult with dash and devotion, if also a dash of sentimentalism. Her two subsequent novels remained merely promising. Cassandra is her long-awaited fourth novel, written 24 years after her first, and presumably a mature work. It is a crushing disappointment...