Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson made its first six points a few minutes after the beginning of the game. After a pass interception by Tom Boone had given Harvard possession of the ball, Damis ran a five-yard sweep around the Quaker right end to score a touchdown. The rest of the first quarter was marred by fumbles by each team as they struggled on the muddy field...
...Turn of the Screw, brilliantly directed by John (Playhouse go) Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman. Actress Bergman ran a shuddering range of emotions, from schoolmotherly affection for two children placed in her care, to sheer terror of two black ghosts that possess the children, to cold determination to fight the dead and save the souls of the living...
Since then, the spread of color has been swift. The Milwaukee Journal, which ran only 346,867 lines of run-of-press color ads in 1946, carried 2,400,344 last year. The number of U.S. dailies using run-of-press color has increased 25% since 1956. Color now appears in more than 800 U.S. dailies. Even small-circulation papers are taking on hue: last year only four papers outranked the Midland, Texas Reporter-Telegram (circ. 17,650) in the use of color advertising...
...home in Michigan, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield put a cancellation stamp on rumors that he might run for office next year. "Look, I'm now 60!" cried he. "I've worked hard since I was 13 years old with hardly anything resembling a vacation. If I ran for anything, my wife would crown...
Finally, at Calais, and later off Gravelines to the north, the Spaniards ran out of luck, and more precisely, out of cannon balls. Beaten, although for the most part still seaworthy, Medina Sidonia's fleet had no choice but to make the long run home, around Scotland and Ireland. Many ships broke up in violent squalls or split open on rocks along the Irish coast, and the natives grimly knocked out some Spaniards' brains as the men lay exhausted on the beaches. Few lived, despite legend, says Mattingly, to seed the Celts with dark skins and black eyes...