Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fitness Report. In London, the Times ran a classified ad: "Tired, bored, lazy army officer resigning from infantry regiment. Incompetent, drinks too much. Seeks employment, not too much work, London area. Age 28, looks...
...Gates, in sharp contrast, is a stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral...
...period, Wesleyan held a 20-11 lead. The Cardinals had little difficulty in breaking through the varsity's man-for-man defense, and the Crimson offense was stymied by the Wesleyan zone. Even when the varsity shifted to a zone defense, the Cardinals still scored almost at will, and ran their lead to 27 to 17 before the Crimson put on an aggressive zone press...
With its press working, the varsity battled back, and ran off six straight points. When the Crimson moved into a full court press with 4:30 left in the half, tempers began to flare. Wesleyan wisely stayed calm when it counted, taking advantage of the varsity's over-eagerness to build its margin to 43 to 29 by intermission...
...minister and professor of natural sciences at a small Baptist college, who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish college, got a job as a mining engineer, finally bought a promising silver mine in Rawhide, Nev. When the vein ran out, he looked around for a job, after due consideration signed on as manager of a rundown cemetery near Los Angeles. One day in 1917, as Eaton surveyed his "depressing patches of devil grass, straggling untidy pepper trees [and] grim granite headstones," he was seized with a thrilling vision...