Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most valuable and the most fascinating to art historians, who see in them the first stirrings of surrealism. The first person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding, by which he addressed Chagall), describing him as having hair like "the trolley cable across Europe arrayed in little many-colored fires." He did Chagall a better favor by instigating a show in 1914 in Berlin. It was a sensation with the German...
...week a French runner led him through a 57.3-sec. first quarter, a second rabbit helped him to a 1-min. 56.5-sec. half, a third man pushed him to 2 min. 57.2 sec. at the three-quarter mark. From there on, Jazy sprinted out ahead, finished with a dash that put him 45 yds. ahead. He then coolly noted that the footing on the track was poor be cause it had been chopped up by too many earlier races. "Without this," he said, "I could have done...
Sprinter Wayne Andersen reached the semifinals of the NCAA indoor 60-yard dash, but he still hasn't hit his peak outdoors. He has run the 100 yard dash in 9.6 and 9.7 with the aid of slight following winds. In the IC4A finals, however, he tripped at the start, and finished last, leaving his official best time...
Commander Lieut. Colonel Mike Hoare ordered his twin commando columns to dash straight to Buta-in hopes of surprising the Simbas before they could...
British Columnist Malcolm Muggeridge is also appalled. While admitting that Bond's "instant appeal to attractive women, his dash and daring and smartness combined with toughness, make him every inch a hero of our time," he also notes that "insofar as one can focus on so shadowy and unreal a character, he is utterly despicable: obsequious to his superiors, pretentious in his tastes, callous and brutal in his ways, with strong undertones of sadism, and an unspeakable cad in his relations with women, toward whom sexual appetite represents the only approach...