Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farr is a legitimate All-America candidate who has aver aged 6 yds. per carry so far this season. Flanker Harold Busby is a threat to go all the way any time he gets his hands on one of Beban's passes-because he runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.4 sec. Tackle John Richardson (254 Ibs.) and Guard Larry Agajanian (232 Ibs.) supply the beef for a gang-tackling defense that limited Syracuse's own All-America Halfback Floyd Little to 18 yds. in twelve carries and held Missouri to 39 yds. on the ground...
...Handy pressed on, but then the reed in his alto sax went sour, grounding the high-register flights that he plays so well. Undaunted, he introduced Blues for a High Strung Guitar-but wait, where was the guitar player? Unstrung backstage, as it happened, where he had to dash to repair a snapped string...
...past year, "the Old Fox" has become frail and ail ing, and control of the party is passing day by day into the hands of his ambitious 47-year-old son Andreas, who harangues the voters on the need for "redistribution of income to the poorer classes" and "a dash of socialism." Papandreou the elder had his differences with King Constantine, but he nonetheless favored the monarchy as an institution, arguing only that "the King should reign and not rule." His son is a far more outspoken antimonarchist. In an emotional speech last week, he announced that "the Center Union...
...black umbrella and, looking for all the world like a department-store manager from Sloane Square, scissors briskly off to the Met. If the weather is bad, he will take the subway, often stopping off at a sleazy hashery for a cup of hot milk with a dash of coffee-much to the dismay of his staff, who feel that to be seen in such a place is beneath the dignity of his station...
...groin iron for political pundits. The central character here is a columnist named Walter Dobius ("Walter Wonderful"). And though Dobius may not resemble any single real-life oracle, readers can be forgiven if they detect a little bit of Walter Lippmann, a little bit of Scotty Reston, and a dash of Joe Alsop...