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Daniel Patrick Moynihan dashed off a letter of complaint to the commissioner of the IRS, and another senator blasted the commissioner over the phone.
Any thought you might have had that you would be vacationing in a sleepy Mediterranean island backwater will quickly be dashed upon arrival at sprawling Son Sant Joan, Palma de Mallorca’s international airport.
Hopes of setting up a constitutional monarchy were quickly dashed, and Spain was plunged into a century of power struggles at home.
Conversely, who remembers the bass clef lines and spaces (with, respectively, the insipid “ G reat B ig D ogs F ight A nimals” and “ A ll C ars E at G as” )? The treble clef lines are only a bit more memorable (“ E very G ood B oy D oes F ine” or “ E very G rizzly B ear D igs F igs” ); its spaces' notes, at least, crisply spell face . Who knows how many musical aspirations have been dashed against the bass clef, for want of adequate mnemonics?
All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.