Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice that occasionally the waiters cordon the room off, let the girls dash in for a quick peek...
...July 2nd, Harvard was paired first against the Leander Rowing Club, the best of the British eights. The London Morning Post called it a splendid struggle." Leander took the lead, but the Americans, rowing "with great dash," overtook them before the half way marker, and won by a length...
Thomas E. Burke Sp. '01 won the 100-meter dash and the 400-meter run; Ellery H. Clark '96 took firsts in the broad jump and high jump; freshman James B. Connolly '99 won the hop, step, and jump...
...seven-man committee issued a modest proposal to fill a hole in undergraduate instruction, revitalizing house education at the same time. Each house should get a typewriter-sized computer console, Mosteller's committee recommended. It would be available from 8 to 12, seven nights a week, and students could dash downstairs to use the computer for physics problems or for homework in the new computer courses made possible by the new machinery...
...Foods & Industries, wooed Mahoney away from the $160,000-a-year executive-vice-presidency of Colgate-Palmolive. A veteran of package-goods wars at Colgate, at advertising agencies (his own and Ruthrauff & Ryan) and at Good Humor Corp. (where he had been president), Mahoney, 44, proved to be a dash of effervescence. By paring administrative overhead and closing two of the company's 16 bottling plants, he cut $1,500,000 a year from operating costs. To pep up promotion, he hired two new ad agencies for soft drinks; he allocated more money to plug such profitable sidelines...