Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that fascinated her about the ballet was the fierce contrast between the blazing light on the stage and the darkness in the flies and backstage. Often she sketched by a dim green light, sometimes she could not see what she was drawing at all. Between scenes she would dash up to the dressing rooms, sketch away furiously while the ballerinas changed costumes. One of her great disappointments is that she never got into the men's dressing room...
Charm and Champagne. When the concert was over, Molotov led the dash for the eats. There were ten dining rooms, all heavily laden with food and drinks. Zakuska (Russian hors d'oeuvres) was so plentiful that by the time the hot dishes arrived, hours later, nobody was hungry except the waiters, who kept filling up plates and tucking them away behind portieres. The food was excellent and wound up in a blaze of crepes suzettes, ice creams and purple champagne...
...ship. As the boats pulled away and the ship settled in the water, ablaze from end to end, the survivors heard a weird sound. The skipper had propped himself up, got hold of the whistle lanyard with his good arm and sent his last salute−dot-dot-dot-dash−the Morse code V for Victory...
...that fast." So said almost everybody in 1896 when Bernie Wefers first ran the ioo-yard dash in 9.4 seconds. Six more times he equaled the present world record, a generation before Frank Wykoff (1930) and Jesse Owens (1935). Watches were checked and verified. But the A.A.U. still called it im possible. Wefers had to be content with an official...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cruised around Britain in high gear last week, visiting camps, inspecting troops, giving forthright pep talks and conferring with field officers who will lead the invasion forces. Monty traveled, as he does everything, with dash and authority. He had a special train, his regular staff, a picked detail of twenty ATS (British WACs) who served as cooks and orderlies...