Word: dashing
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Charles, who had previously projected a kind of steady, Urquhart-plaid personality, seemed to pick up some more dash, as if he were beginning to realize rather belatedly what his sporting friends would happily have told him: that he had made a damned lucky catch...
...ruling clergy is determined to dash all hopes of combining modernism with Islam in Iran, which had been the idealistic and forlorn plan of Banisadr. For the fundamentalists, the Paris-educated economist who became President represented a suspiciously Western, secular influence in the revolutionary government. It made no difference that his father, the late Ayatullah Seyed Nasrollah Banisadr, had been an Islamic leader revered by Khomeini. Supporting the suspicions about the deposed President, Khomeini declared last week, "Banisadr and his ilk are Muslims, but their Islam somehow leaves room for U.S. domination." He also charged that Banisadr had urged...
...race, but someone got hurt so I was put in the varsity race. I ran out of absolute fear of the cold and the coach--I got first in the race and a stadium record that still stands to this day (21.6 in the 200 meter dash)." Chapus never played football again...
...this case, better late than never. No such comprehensive view of German art has ever been set before an American public; from the romantic visions and esoteric metaphors of painters like Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich in the first decades of the 19th century, to the robust dash and splash of Lovis Corinth at its end, there are 150 works by 30 artists, and they help fill a gaping hole in our sense of the actual patterns of European culture. The fact, to put it simply, is that German art got left out of American taste on 19th...
...meter run, with Ashley posting a 59.8 and Rogers flying in right behind with 59.9. Yale's Ellis won the race in 59.3. Cathy Busby and Karen Blount qualified for Easterns, unfortunately beyond the deadline, with 12.2 and 12.3 times in the 100-meter dash...