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Word: dashings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engineer co-captain Don Morrison could pose a threat in the broad jump, the pole vault, and the dash. The other Tech co-captain, Jim Withbroe, might capture the 600, since McCurdy may choose to go with distance men Mark Mullin, Bob Knapp, and Ed Hamlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Favored Over M.I.T. Today | 12/14/1960 | See Source »

Next day 2,000 riled-up teen-agers cut classes again (one of the legislature's special acts aimed to make truancy legal) to make another futile dash at McDonogh 19. Joined this time by a throng of adults, they headed downtown for a protest "interview" with Mayor Morrison. At city hall police again blocked the way, ordered them to disperse. Instead, the mob moved on to Carondelet Street, headquarters of the city's school board. There fire trucks backed up another police line, finally scattered them with billowing streams of water. All afternoon and evening, gangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: D-Day in New Orleans | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...dash and high hurdles man, O'Hiri used his speed to good advantage when he rammed home his third score at 13:45 of the second period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Rout Tufts, 7-0 | 10/27/1960 | See Source »

...Hiri represented Nigeria in the hop, top and jump in a meet against the United States last year, and also runs the 100 yard dash and the 120 yard high hurdles. He intends to try out for the Crimson track team this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Squads Choose Captains | 10/25/1960 | See Source »

...Nigerian civil servants who have been on the job for years. Many Britons will remain to help, either on permanent salary status or special contracts. Snags are bound to persist; corruption, for example, is widespread and even semirespectable among Nigerians who for years have been accustomed to giving a "dash" (bribe) in exchange for a favor from tribal chiefs or government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Free Giant | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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