Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However envious the other Democratic candidates might be of Jackson's unexpected dash into the national spot light, all may have benefited indirectly from his heroics. He not only made their expected November foe, Ronald Reagan, look ineffectual for not gaining Goodman's release earlier, but brought new stirrings of excitement to a Democratic race that had been drifting toward tedium almost before it began. For the moment, anyway, Jesse Jackson was the life of the party...
Bribes, known variously as dash, chai or bonsella-the traditional palm greasing for services rendered or anticipated-have become a way of life. They now take the form of a carton of razor blades, a case of Scotch or the latest in digital watches. Smugglers make a killing in African marketplaces. Recently police raided a privately owned store along Pugu Road in Dar es Salaam and found a cache of spare vehicle parts large enough to fill the cargo hold of a ship. Says former Tanzanian Police Chief Ken Flood: "Africa has always attracted con men and carpetbaggers. But they...
...first goal-tending acrobatics. He somehow survived a Gary Martin cannonshot that ricocheted off his pads and the cross bar, and high up in the air before he caught it on the way down. Early in the second period, he closed the pads to rob Tim Smith from point-dash range...
Smith, who played forward on the fourth line, did better as a defenseman on a mid dash power play. Just as the interference penalty to Peter Taglianetti expired. Smith gloved down a clearing pass at the Friar blue line and slapped it off Proulx's blocking glove and into the twines for the go-ahead goal...
Scarifying monsters add a dash of sci-fi glitz. They include Kronovores (creatures capable of devouring time), deadly Cybermen (decaying bodies encased in silver garb), the Yeti (a 9-ft.-tall carpet), the Anti-Matter Beast from Zeta-Minor (a bug-eyed sheet of aluminum wrap) and the Daleks, mobile robots who look like milk churns and scoot around intoning...