Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee "according to custom overcharged with useless members" who could be expected to offer "a thousand ridiculous and impracticable proposals." Mason promptly took charge. In debate, according to one expert, he was "neither flowing nor smooth, but his language was strong, his manner most impressive, and strengthened by a dash of cynicism when provocation made it seasonable...
...problem with the Red Line is that it lacks dash; its outdoor stops at the southern end of the line are too sterile and ordinary to get away from a suburban sense of blandness. What would most improve the Red Line is a change-over to a new type of car which would allow riders to look out the front. This would maximize the line's basic underground strengths...
According to one Harvard administrator, the oil crisis and the resultant world redistribution of income caused a mad dash of American university presidents over to the Persian Gulf in search of grant money; presidents were often nonplussed to run into several of their colleagues at once in the lobby of the Riyadh Hilton. But one president nobody ever ran into over there was President Bok. He didn't have to go; they came...
...with dance works by Toby Armour, founder of the Boston troupe, Jean Churchill, its current director, and New York avant-gardists Trisha Brown and James Waring; a play, "Gutta Dance", follows. A dinner break is promised (about an hour, long enough for a picnic in or a dash out), and so is rousing camaraderie...
Responding to Glazer's "colorblind" comment, Allison, a black, said "with all the handicaps you've already put on me, I'm supposed to forget about it and run the 100-yard dash with you with a twentypound weight around my neck. That weight may seem invisible to you, but it sure slows down the process...