Word: dashing
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...gonna get hit," a Marine says as the men drop to the pavement. It's only 150 yards back to the Government Center, but every inch is hard won. Lance Corporal Phillip Tussey pauses on the edge of a small alley. With another Marine covering him, he makes a dash to cross the five yards of open ground. He doesn't get more than a couple of steps when a shot rings out. He's cut down mid-stride, hit in the thigh. The men around him open fire. Within seconds, insurgents start shooting from the opposite direction. A Marine...
...Effective or not, the surveillance cameras have probably recorded amusing events over the years. Justin A. Morgan ’09, who was running Primal Scream on Wednesday, said that he didn’t care that his dash in the buff was potentially being recorded by security cameras. “They can laugh all they want,” he said...
...Cornell by just 0.1 seconds to take the event in 4:26.82. Likewise, freshman Becky Christensen was a champion. She cleared 1.75 meters in the high jump to win the event for the Crimson. Other runners of note include senior Stevie DeGroff, who took fourth in the 100 meter dash. Freshman Dara Wilson impressed in her first outdoor Heptagonals with a second-place finish in the 100 meter hurdles. In the relays, the team of Maludzinski, sophomore Erika Geihe, freshman Jan Ng, and classmate Aishlinn O’Callaghan took third in the 4 by 800-meter relay...
Iran's fire-breathing president took time off between threats to annihilate Israel and make life hell for America to dash off a letter to President Bush proposing "new solutions" to "the current fragile situation in the world." As improbable as the conciliatory tone may sound from the usually bellicose Ahmadinejad, it may represent a smart shift in diplomatic strategy at a moment when the U.S. is struggling to forge an international consensus to turn up the heat on Tehran...
...seven first-place finishes. Only .04 seconds behind, freshman Brittan Smith earned second after Merritt in the 200-meter race. Smith later snagged the top spot in the long jump with a distance of 5.22 meters. After following Merritt in the No. 2 slot in the 100-meter dash, fellow freshman Dara Wilson grabbed her own first-place win, mastering the 100-meter hurdles in 15.23 seconds. Captain Laura Maludzinski remained consistent, taking first for the fourth straight competition. She led the 1-2-3 Harvard finish in the 800-meter with a 2:12:42 showing...