Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downhill part of a misbegotten event called the combined, not seen in the Olympics for 40 years. This oddity celebrates mediocrity by parlaying a shortened downhill, started below the regular downhill's two fierce initial bends, and two runs of an easier version of the slalom, a fast-turning dash through flagged gates. On the first slalom run Zurbriggen, an all-event virtuoso in whom there is a fine gate skier crying for practice time, tied for sixth behind several slalom slitherers. He led the combined on points. Then, needing only a safe second run to win, he charged...
Mamboleo provided a stunning personal performance as she won the 55-m dash in 7.42 seconds, upsetting a heavily-favored Army field. The Yardling had trimmed her training schedule over the past week while nursing a painful pair of shin splints...
What would provide the most stimulating change of pace after Starlight Express's romance of the rails? For Andrew Lloyd Webber it was the sweep and dash of pure old-fashioned romance. He found it in French Novelist Gaston Leroux's 1910 thriller Le Fantome de l'Opera, long a standby for stage and screen adaptations (notably Lon Chaney's 1925 silent horror film). The version devised by Lloyd Webber and Librettist Richard Stilgoe dispensed with much of the novel's narrative superstructure to focus on two characters: the gruesomely disfigured genius who haunts the Paris Opera and the young...
...Curses," I replied to the accusation. "You've figured us out! Run! Run!" I made a dash for the door, but was caught...
Three freshmen had outstanding performances although none placed in the top three. John Mee and John Koenigsknecht both ran very well in the 400 meters, and Mauricio Velez took sixth in the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.6 seconds...