Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he really needed the favor. Worth roughly $20 million, Hedges runs his enterprises with a profitable smoothness that gives him time to dash from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place...
...punctuation keys were filed from his typewriter, let readers of the avant-garde Evergreen Review in on how he does it. His methods for "spontaneous prose": "No periods separating sentence structures already arbitrarily riddled by false colons and timid usually needless commas-but the vigorous space dash separating rhetorical breathing (as jazz musicians drawing breath between outblown phrases). No pause to think of proper word but the infantile pileup of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained. If possible write 'without consciousness' in semi-trance...
...lead as the Russians piled up enough points in the women's events to stay close. U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly upset Russia's world's-record holder, Mikhail Krivonosov, with a heave of 220 ft. 8.88 in. Other U.S. winners: Ira Murchison (100-meter dash), Glenn Davis (400-meter run), Parry O'Brien (shotput), Ernie Shelby (broad jump), Barbara Jones in the women's 100-meter dash...
...strange, ungainly bird, has been flying for two years. Single-seated, powered by one Pratt & Whitney J57 Jet engine, it has a wing so long that outrigger wheels must support it on the ground. This configuration gives the U-2 little dash but great lift and good performance at 60,000 ft. and above...
...Coming out of the turn, Sprinter Glenn Davis of Ohio State University inched into the lead and whipped across the finish line of the 440-yd. dash in 45.7 sec., to set a new world's record at the N.C.A.A. games in Berkeley, Calif...