Word: dashing
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...years later he showed his American dash by smuggling to Paris a papal indictment of Fascist attacks upon the Catholic action and youth movement; he turned it over to the A.P. and U.P. for release to the world. In Italy Spellman learned to fly, became the first Catholic bishop to win a pilot's license...
...many of the lavish spreads looked confusingly like the advertisements they adjoined. And like the old National Geographic, the new Holiday obviously suffered from the same travel restrictions that have kept wanderlustful vacationers homebound. To season his first issue with a dash of global flavor, Editor Beaman bought a rewrite by U.P. Funnyman Frederick C. Othman of his six-day round-the-world flight. Other pieces covered San Francisco, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Southwest's cliff-dweller ruins...
...sprinters placed twice in the money. Cliff Wharton took a first in the 40 yard dash in the time of 4.8 seconds and followed up with a second in the 300 yard event. The 45 yard high hurdles were copped in 6.0 seconds by Jack Hunter, who also loped into third in the 300 yard dash...
...when the school superintendent got his head bashed, the principal quit, the coach resigned, excited parents staged a mass meeting, 19 members of the football squad turned in their books and left school. At Pampa, one of the state's oldest and best referees made a game-end dash for it, flanked by protecting police, beat it out of town with a hooting mob panting at his heels...
...Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams, fathers forfeited their children's love because of denture breath, and women exclaimed: "Don't expect...