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Word: dashings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give-and-take are just right. And Basehart times his "Ay, no; no, ay" to perfection. This is a moving spectacle indeed. There remains only for the prop department to come up with a better hand-mirror than an allwooden imitation; the best actor in the world could not dash it to the floor with the glass "crack'd in a hundred shivers...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Eighth Stratford Summer Season Opens With Adept Production Of "Richard II" | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

...took off like a rocket," said Burleson later. "He just went whoosh." Snell broke the tape in 3 min. 56.1 sec.-the fastest mile ever run in the U.S. Astonished dockers timed his last 120 yds. in 13.4 sec.-the equivalent, approximately, of a 10-sec. 100-yd. dash. Said Snell: ""I was never in doubt I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unconventional Champion | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

Ohirl, counted on for points in the 100 yard dash, broad jump, and hop, step, and jump, will be out of the meet with a heel injury. Thus Sid Marland and Marty Beckwith in the broad jump and Marland, Hobie Armstrong, and Zeko Azikiwe in the hop, step, and jump, will have to come through in spades to give the varsity the points it needs in these events...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Ohiri's Heel Injury Jolts Track Varsity | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...cause foam to back up stories high in the pipes of tall apartment buildings. A high-sudsing syndet falling through a pipe from the 15th floor may enlarge itself 17,000 times by the time it hits the basement. The widespread use of low-sudsing detergents (among them: All, Dash, Fun, Spin) would help vastly to solve the problem, but they are nowhere near as popular - one building management firm offered to supply upper-floor dwellers with a low-sudsing detergent free of charge, but without success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Down the Drain | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...heard the news of his release last week, PFC Owen, his nose sunburned from 23 days of hard labor under guard, said contritely: "I want to go back to my unit and be a good soldier." The first thing Letter Writer Chidester did was to sit down and dash off a thank-you note to President Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Easter Greetings | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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