Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donning Levi's and a college T shirt emblazoned STANFORD is not an act of political rebellion but of status seeking. For Soviet youngsters, Western products proclaim to their friends, "I can get what I want." A scarf with a designer signature adds a dash of color to what can be a gray existence. Nor are Soviet officials immune to the temptations; it is often their children who are first to sport the latest Western clothes, courtesy of a trip abroad or a state store reserved for the elite. "What cannot help alarming us," Chernenko said last year...
...women doubles will be Grace de-Fries, running 1500 and 800 meters; Kathryn Busy, sprinting 200 and 400 meters: Alice Neuhauser, who in pursuit of a pentathlon victory will double in the 55-meter dash and the 200-meter run, and Kate Wiley, who will run the vast total of 8000 meters, with runs in both the 5000-and 3000-meter events...
...might be cerebral," muses one female crook, "but not about women." With a dash of irony and a hint of irreverence, Ann Cornelisen puts that theory to the test in her puckish new novel. Determined to tease men out of their cozy gallantry, and also to expose Italy's rococo inefficiency, a sextet of foreign women in a sleepy Tuscan village decide to rob a local mail train. Plotting the crime as if it were a script, they adopt literary aliases, don disguises and then, without much difficulty, carry off the million-dollar theft. The lackadaisical local police force...
From Paris to Bonn, from London to Rome, the reaction was immediate: a touch of pique, a dash of perplexity and a pinch of barely controlled anger. "It doesn't help us achieve a clearer under-standing of each other's problems, does it?" asked a British official. A diplomat in Bonn called it "unfortunate, ill tuned and wrong." Said an Italian official: "We were rather surprised. We would like to react, but it is wiser that...
...have found themselves a downhiller. Last week at Wengen, Switzerland, Bill Johnson scored the first World Cup victory ever by an American man in a downhill, despite screeching off course on one ski almost into the woods (talk about slam, dash and amazing recoveries). Austrian Franz Klammer was annoyed. If the Americans are going to start winning downhills, truly nothing is sacred any more...