Word: dashing
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...track beat that summer, and quickly fell in love with the sport - the relay strategies, the tactics of the 100-meter dash versus the distance races, the oddball field sports - pole vault! Hammer-throw! I got to know Justin Gatlin at those trials, and smiled in disbelief when he won the 100-meter sprint in Athens. Just 22 years old, charismatic, and most importantly, clean. Or so I thought. Two years later, Gatlin was busted for doping, and he is now serving an eight-year ban. And Friday Jones pled guilty to lying to federal agents about...
...attributable to the rapacious karma of the vanquished Red Sox. Several hopeful seasons followed, but eventually the Mets fell back into their hammock of despond, a team that rarely tested the limits of mediocrity. My love persisted, unquenched; but the allegiance didn't demand much. It is difficult to dash the absence of hope...
...event that occasioned this headlong dash onto a banana peel was the launch just two months earlier--and 50 years ago this October--of Russia's fabled Sputnik, the world's first satellite. The U.S. reacted to the event as any mature, technologically savvy nation would, which is to say we lost our marbles. The Russians had seized the high ground of space, we cried. It would be only a matter of time before they were gliding overhead, dropping bombs on us like overripe fruit from a highway overpass...
...kind. We had a man with a twisted fetish for watching poor, defenseless dogs rip each other apart; and if they didn’t try hard enough to please him, he’d ruthlessly slaughter them in ways only fit for a Hostel movie. Add in a dash of rich, spoiled athlete and a sinister sneer and face to match, and you had a recipe for quite a firestorm...
...rupees only," Bhola Ram declares solemnly, "special price for you." As I fish in my pockets for the equivalent of 25 cents that my meal will cost, he deftly smashes two kachoris - deep fried dumplings with a spicy potato filling - onto a paper plate. Next comes a dash of spicy mint chutney and a splash of red tamarind sauce, and garnish of sliced onions. I try not to think of the beads of sweat forming on his forearms and making their way down into my lunch. I pay him and take the plate, careful not to spill...