Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 60, USN (ret.), who ran the Navy's showin the invasion of Sicily, is now ambassador to Belgium. In June, Kirk will take over Spasso House, the U.S. embassy just a mile from the Kremlin, known to some of the inmates as Spasm House...
Near Rose Island, 60 miles below Nanking, two artillery shells from the Red-held north bank hit the Amethyst, crippled her bridge and wheelhouse. Rudder controls jammed. The Amethyst swung helplessly with the current; she ran aground on a bar near the island. Her four forward guns, facing the island, were useless, but her stern guns began to pour a methodical fire of 4-in. shells into the Communist positions. The shore batteries cut loose again. "It was a bit of a haze from then on," said one of the survivors...
Freshman debaters ran their string of consecutive victories to six when they gained the decision over Princeton yesterday at the Union. Walter C. Carrington '52, and Jay R. Nussbaum '52 argued for the crimson, taking the negative side of the topic: "Resolved that basic industries should be nationalized in the United states...
...lack of organization, fight, or ability in the Governor Dummer team. The Crimson just won, and then by a bare hair. If credits should go to any one player it would go to big attack player Ned Yost and his huge stick. Yost plays crease, and he ran up his four point score with his defenseman's stick, which is longer than normal for an attack player. Yost catches the ball high in the air and uses his extra leverage to slam the ball into the net with a speed most opposing defensemen decry...
...Harper's article is written by Milton Mayer of Chicago University. After pointing out that the Tribune story ran as the news lead on the front page, Mayer proceeds to reprint it in full, adding footnotes of his own based on exhaustive research...