Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and Dukakis both appeared on morning television programs while embarking on another dawn-to-dusk dash through key battleground states...
...dash to Store 24. Between the day-old donuts and empty coffee cups, you find a box of rabbit's feet...
Shawcross briskly recounts the Shah's decline and fall, from the first wobbles of the Peacock Throne to the restrained dash to the airport with Queen Farah Diba, their entourage and pets. But unlike luckier deposed billionaires, the Shah did not have a soft landing. He had cancer and was coming down with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy...
Pearl Bailey sang and basketball star Patrick Ewing reminisced, adding a dash of glamour to an event that was beamed by satellite to 37 cities around the country. But the 3,000 other alumni, dignitaries and Catholic clergy who crowded into Washington's cavernous Constitution Hall on Oct. 1 did not come for the stargazing alone. Their purpose was to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 200th anniversary of Georgetown University, the nation's oldest Catholic institution of higher learning. The festivities were a bit early: Georgetown was actually founded in 1789. But that hardly seemed to matter...
Morton, a Dartmouth wide receiver, is arguably the best pass catcher in the Ivy League. He has 2093 career receiving yards, second most in Dartmouth history. He has blazing speed--he runs the 40-yd. dash in 4.4 seconds...