Word: dashing
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Many have accused him of being one of the most conspicuously upwardly mobile members of the Faculty; others have pointed out that his most prominent personality traits-good humor, a striking ability to speak his mind well and quickly, and a large measure of dash-have simply made the graph of his career an especially easy curve to follow...
...before, Jeff Rothbard and Mary Dash had brought a determined DP team to Cambridge. But after the CRIMSON scored on its first three plays from scrimmage, the visitors' morale sagged, and they never recovered...
...candidate is short, boyish despite graying sideburns, and dresses with dash. His hands constantly go to his receding hairline. As he steps away from the pulpit of a synagogue in Queens (because it is "too formal"), in order to address his audience from the aisle, he looks like a misplaced Johnny Carson...
...HAVE come to rule!" cried Bolivia's President Alfredo Ovando Candia last week after a 300-mile dash to his presidential palace in La Paz. While out of the capital opening a new railroad line in the provincial city of Santa Cruz, he got word that a right-wing military force led by his own army chief of staff had seized power, declaring that it would give Bolivians "the destiny they deserve." By the end of a wild week, both Ovando and the rival military men were out. In power, following a seriocomic sequence of coup and countercoup...
...worst jail crisis in the city's history began at lunchtime four days earlier at the 95-year-old Branch Queens House of Detention for Men. Inmates snatched keys from unarmed guards and made a frantic dash through the halls, unlocking cells all the way. The rioters turned on faucets to flood several floors, set fire to furniture and bedding, heaved debris and an eight-foot wooden bench out of broken cell windows. In a new political twist, they also hung the flag of the black liberation movement from a top-floor window. Over the next three days, more...