Word: dashing
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...which made it the envy of the whole department. Whiskers slept in the big truck and never missed an alarm-even though he often had to gallop back from nearby meat shops when the gong began to clang. When he got to the fire, Whiskers would climb ladders and dash eagerly into burning buildings...
Captain Bill Geick appears to be top man in two events, the dash and broad Jump. Since Dick Welskopf won't be sprinting this year and Pete Curran is at present slowed up with several injuries, Geick has moved into the top position. Sophomore Pete Dow, who managed to make the London trip last year as a freshman, and Norm Gougen appear most likely to give support, while Bob Twitchell might shape up as a sprinter before the season is over...
Early Sunday morning, under a slate-grey sky, Madrileños lined up in silent queues outside a thousand polls in schools and public buildings. In the capital, as all over Falangist Spain, the election of municipal councilmen went on without any of the dash and urgency of truly free elections. There had been no posters, no slogans, no handbills, no last-minute soapbox speeches, no discussions, no parades, no cheers or boos for candidates...
...Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
...difference seemed to be a new confidence, combined with the old fight. For somewhere this team had picked up a scoring punch, the ability to tally from anywhere on the field, whether by a 47-yard drive through Princeton, or an 84-yard dash past Yale...