Word: dashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bobby Joe Morrow, 21, who grew up on a lazy little cotton and carrot farm outside San Benito, Texas, glided down the cinder straightaway with such easy grace that he seemed to be running no faster than he had to. It was fast enough to win the 100-meter dash...
...show, People's Testimony and Defile, painted from the window of Rivera's room in Moscow's National Hotel and both depicting scenes in Red Square, caught the bleakness of Moscow's winter and the immensity of the square with some of his old dash and color...
...hopes for a rising tide of modern Republicanism came a dash of bad tidings last week from a Down East stalwart. The tidebreaker: Frederick George Payne, 56, former (1949-53) Maine governor and 1952 Ike-backer who edged out Taftman Owen Brewster in the 1952 primaries and is now Maine's junior Senator. The tidings: hardworking, quietly effective Frederick Payne will not seek re-election in 1958. Among the reasons for the change in Payne: his health (he has a chronic but not disabling heart disorder), his family (Mrs. Payne doesn't like Washington), his pocketbook...
What to drink is almost as large a question as how to drink it. A favorite is milk punch (a little sugar, brandy, rum or whiskey, ice, and milk 'til tasty). The thermos bottle set still swears by hot buttered rum (with a dash of bitters and a clove or two). The most effective standbys are vodka and any kind of juice which will disguise the alcohol (temporarily) from a dainty date...
Among the modern followers of that tradition, Welsh-born Augustus John gives his portraits of the great a romantic dash and bravura air that raises them far above the cliche level of most Royal Academy official portraits. Dublin-born Francis Bacon with his eerie studies has introduced into portraiture the element of overpowering psychological shock that leaves an echo in the mind like a scream in an empty corridor, and has made Bacon one of the best and most individual artists in Britain today...