Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parties must be great at Amherst this fall for the Varsity soccer team had no trouble yesterday afternoon subduing the Lord Jeff booters, who ran out of gas after about ten minutes of play at the Business School Field and played the whole last period at about half speed. The score was 3 to 0 thus giving the Varsity a record of one win, one tie, and one less for the season...
Last week a pack of youngsters in the Gorbals ran from a Communist election rally to follow a Labor Party car (see cut). At the polls their elders did virtually the same, even though Labor has done little more than the Tories ever did for the Gorbals. Alice Cullen, Labor's candidate, won by a 6,525-vote margin over the Conservative candidate.The Communists, after an all-out campaign, got 17% of the vote. Said one Labor Party official in smug satisfaction: "We've still held our record of never losing a seat at a by-election since...
...chief wrecker was slim, 165-lb. Halfback Charlie ("Choo Choo") Justice. He ran like a jack rabbit, fast and zigzaggy. Against Texas, Choo Choo scored two touchdowns, threw passes for two more, modestly demurred when called upon to score another. "I've had my flurry," he said in the huddle. "Give somebody else a chance...
...assault' as a euphemism for the word 'rape.' " But most newsmen may find it hard to drop this traditional euphemism or its twin "statutory offense." Once the Houston Post tried to. The copy went to the composing room, with a sentence that told how a woman ran down the street screaming "He's trying to rape me! Help!" The Post's prim proofreaders, to whom a rule was a rule, split an infinitive as the lesser of two evils, and changed...
Routine. In Baltimore, bystanders explained to police why they had made no move to help Mrs. Rita Franke when she ran screaming up the street holding on to a burglar's coattails: they thought it was just an ordinary husband-&-wife spat...