Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liberal Moscow News, it was wiser to pursue "collective approaches" than "extreme measures to enhance one's prestige." Like the fable of the tortoise and the hare, the Soviets are obviously betting that their slow and steady brand of diplomacy will ultimately pay off, especially if the first mad dash to contain Saddam should bog down in the sand...
Every nation invents its own style of going to war -- the myths that it plays in its mind when it marches off to fearsome business. In August 1914 an Englishman placed a personal ad in the London Times: "Pauline -- alas, it cannot be. But I will dash into the great venture with all that pride and spirit an ancient race has given me." The man's generation, destined for the trenches at Ypres and the Somme, was almost innocent enough to ship off thinking of Horace's lines: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori." Years later, American boys flying...
...Olympian Matt Biondi emerged from semiretirement to win five medals, four gold. That was more excitement than track achieved despite having such U.S. stars as Carl Lewis, Roger Kingdom, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Evelyn Ashford, who, at 33, finished just out of the medals in the 100-meter dash in the twilight of her exceptional career...
...Indian soldiers and policemen in the streets, Srinagar is enemy territory. At every major crossing, they huddle around sandbag bunkers. They never know when a young man might dash up, whip back his cloak and blast away with an AK-47 rifle. He might kill or wound a soldier or two, forcing the military to give chase and shoot back -- and thus turn more people against the government...
...more than a half-century. His local bank, which had promised to add $3 million to the firm's $15 million line of credit, suddenly backed out and warned him that he would soon lose access to the original $15 million. That sent Pappathanasi on a frantic dash for cash that ended when he found banks in New York City and London that were willing to lend. Says he: "I didn't sleep for two months chasing these loans...