Word: dashing
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...every note of the labyrinthine cadenza; most pianists usually cut it down to their size. After wading through the cadenza, it seemed hardly difficult at all for Ashkenazy to master the rest of the piece-lightening it with brilliant glissandos and surging sonorous chords, concluding with a sudden, speedy dash that seemed to carry him from his piano stool to the wings, away from the house he had brought down about his ears...
...glass-enclosed machine room of the Harvard Computing Center, a dozen men in shirtsleeves dash about--consulting a stream of paper tumbling out of one machine or filing a stack of cards into the entrails of another. The banks of the IBM 7094 churn through hours of work in minutes, lights flashing and tapes spinning into a blur, jerking to a stop, and spinning the other...
...love, so in war. The American reputation for wanting quick victories is deserved, from John Paul Jones ("boldness, not caution, wins") to Sherman and Patton. Yet in every war they have fought, Americans have also shown great patience, which of course is a form of courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...
Sprinter Sam Robinson, the team's number-one dash man, was out for the season. Sophomore Dave McKelvey couldn't run the 600-yard dash until the Heptagonals, the last meet of the indoor season. And two of the top-distance runners, seniors Dave Alien and Walt Hewlett, were knocked out by a thesis and strained muscles, respectively. The two chief men in the weight events, sophomores Ron Wilson and Carter Lord, were promising but untried...
...holder at 2:10.4. Last year's team couldn't boast a single 14-ft., plus pole vaulter, but this year's squad boasts two, Junior Dave Bell hit 14-ft. in the Heps, while Schoonover cleared 14 ft., 4 in. Sprinter Wayne Anderson has run the 60-yard dash...