Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a 17-year-old youth named Lawrence Mack knocked on his door one night last week and tried to collect for some cleaning work, Craig ran true to form. He yanked out a pistol. As the youth began to sprint down the street, Craig took a shot...
...cops tried a concentrated barrage with carbines, Tommy guns, pistols, and tear-gas guns. When silence fell, Craig began shooting again. Daring policemen ran up, threw flares and gasoline through downstairs windows. Yellow flames began to billow through the house. Fire trucks shot sledging streams of water into the upper windows. But amid the yells, the crackle of fire, and the throb of pumps the cops could hear Craig screaming: "You want me-come...
...carried Joseph's casket back to Palestine from their Egyptian exile. But after the ceremony was over, most Israelis seemed too busy building their new country to be emotional about the prophet's return. The attitude of brisk irreverence was expressed by one Tel Aviv paper which ran a cartoon showing a man kneeling before Herzl's coffin. "Why do you weep?" a friend asks him. "This is a day of rejoicing." "I am not weeping," answers the man with the bowed head. "I am looking for my glasses...
...Candy rationing, ended by the Labor government in a burst of optimism (TIME, May 2), was clamped back on last week. The planners had figured wrong: Britain was hungrier for candy than they had thought, and supplies on hand soon ran out. The new ration was the same as before: four ounces a week. To Britain's melancholy moppets that meant a couple of four-inch chocolate bars or a small bag of gumdrops...
...optimists in the Charles camp hoped that by fight night their man might be mean tempered enough to go after Gus with all guns smoking, but cautious, self-deprecating Ezzard Charles ran true to form. In the near 100° heat of the stadium, Charles fought his usual earnest, crafty and intelligent fight. He beat game old Gus about the head and body, danced out of range when his opponent tried to reach him with sledgehammer rights. Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar...