Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McKellan (Geoffrey) brings the perfect dash of good-humored candor and carefree elegance to the white South African friend who "might not have the price of a dinner," but "easily might have two million dollars," and on whom the Kittredges are counting for help (two million dollars worth) in closing a deal on a Cezanne...
...Jesus Agudelo, returned fire. Having desperately thrust himself through a second- story window, Escobar, clad only in jeans and a T shirt, tried to climb through a narrow metal grating leading to the roof next door. From there, he might have been able to leap to the ground and dash into a nearby wooded area. But a fusillade of machine-gun fire stopped him on the grating; hit by seven bullets in the head and neck, he crumpled to the ground...
...furniture of novel writing clutters chapters that might otherwise explain what happened. It is simply irritating, for a reader trying to understand the murk of the Suez crisis, to be patronized by docudrama as characters dash on- and offstage costumed as a paratrooper, a general, an intelligence operative, their wives and mistresses, and so on. Or, to take the contrary view, it is emotionally unsatisfying to read endless stuff about John Foster Dulles and Suez when what you want is the paratrooper and the lady in intimate clutch...
...feels about taking time off? I used to make fun of people with a dash something after their names. Now I guess I'll have to be a self-hater...
This is nothing new in Nigeria where "dash," or bribes, have been a regular source of income for government officials since long before independence. But the current level of corruption dwarfs anything in the colonial past. The result, says C.S. Whitaker, a Nigeria specialist at the University of Southern California, is a complete disconnection between honest effort and rewards. Nigerians see that a small number of well-connected, self- styled yuppies have enriched themselves enough from graft to own fleets of Mercedes color-coordinated with every suit in their wardrobe, while college graduates cannot find work. Many young...