Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are connoisseurs who go to hockey games just to exult over a weaving solo dash or delight in a well-coordinated scoring play, but rank-&-file hockey fans would still rather hear a player thud against the boards, or see a good fist fight...
...parents help children grow up by careful nourishment of traits that lead to maturity: "1) a desire to move, 2) a readiness and willingness to imitate, 3 ) an alert response to suggestion, 4) a reasonable amount of the love of power, 5) a strong leavening of curiosity, 6) a dash of childhood savagery, and 7) a spark of romancing...
With that intuitive flash which frequently strikes cinemagnates, Goldwyn snatched up the phone, called Palm Beach and asked Novelist MacKinlay Kantor to dash off a story treatment. Kantor went right to work, but before he was through, his "treatment" had blossomed into a 268-page novel in free verse (Glory for Me, a Literary Guild dividend selection). Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story...
Touch football with a dash of color was the general impression of some two-score early birds and class-cutters who journeyed down to Soldiers Field in the morning mists yesterday to watch the Los Angeles Rams cavort around in their six-tone practice uniforms...
Paradise, who joined the Bulldogs this year after graduating from Andover, was one of the hottest pre school sprinters on record, having run a 9.7 100-yard dash and ticking off the 220 in 21.4 seconds. At Andover he ran cross country as a sideline, but beat the school's Varsity harriers with ease...