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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eddie Machen, the No. 2 heavy weight contender until his soft jaw ran into Ingo's hard right, mixes with Reuben Vargas in a return match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...World War II, the 51,656-ton German liner Bremen slunk ghostlike out of New York and ran for Europe with lights out to avoid the searching British navy. War caught up with the Bremen, and British bombing and fire reduced it to a worthless hulk in its home port of Bremerhaven. Last week a new Bremen sailed into New York harbor on her maiden voyage from Bremerhaven, and the lights went on again for North German Lloyd, West Germany's biggest passenger-shipping company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Return of the Bremen | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Earl Belle, 27, Pittsburgh's boy wonder of finance, who ran off to Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro, and Naoma Wallman, 25, blondish showgirl: their first child, a son; in Rio de Janeiro. Name: Clint Randolph. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Graham, editor of the Emporia News, who named her Isabel and raised her-except for a brief period when she was kidnaped by some passing Indians-as his daughter. At 17, Isabel saw a performance of Robin Hood, decided then and there that she wanted to be an actress, ran away from home and got a job in the road company of Wang, under the name of Belle Livingstone. When father ordered her home. Belle simply stuck out her well-developed chest in defiance, walked up to the first man she saw-he happened to be a traveling salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncommon Bawd | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Belle downhearted? Not in the least. She had the baby, wrote a book, married a millionaire from Cleveland, later switched to the middle-aged son of a British banker and ran through his fortune in about a dozen years. "Belle." he said gently one day, "we have no more money." Gently, she left him. Before the year was out she was consorting with streetwalkers in London's slums and sleeping at night on the Thames Embankment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncommon Bawd | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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