Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This campaign of intimidation ran for only a few days before Arizona's Stewart Udall, Democratic leader of the swing group, told Zagri off. "You've got a nerve to go calling my state and telling people I'm voting wrong," he snapped. Zagri brazened it out: ''I'm going to get you in line." Udall exploded as never before in Congress, raked Zagri over until the lobbyist obsequiously agreed that he had voted right. Another Congressman was treated to anonymous threats ("We're going to fix you") on his home and office...
...teacher-three voice teachers, in fact, before one was willing to keep him as a pupil. Then Fabian made a couple of records that were duds. Undaunted, Marcucci embarked on a publicity campaign. He sent Fabian on a road tour, got him shots on local disk-jockey programs, and ran trade-paper teasers that screamed in big black type, "Fabian is coming!" "Who is Fabian?" Then came the clincher: "Fabian is here...
...domination was never in doubt. The Red team captured the high jump, a few more distance events and the decathlon. It could not match double U.S. wins in the 200-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter races, and a sweep of the relays as the American men ran off with the track meet by the score...
Some companies have even descended to wiretapping. After a major company lost an $80 million contract because it was underbid by only $200,000, it ran a phone check, found that its lines were bugged throughout the country. It took the winning bidder to court, wrested the contract away from him. Where wiretapping is illegal, confided one company agent, "there are other ways of getting information. The waiter serving lunch in the man's suite, the telegrams the bell captain might see, the maid who cleans the room, the switchboard operator. These people are paid to keep their eyes...
...garden. Pinkbell has always had control over it, and when Madrigal arrives she completely inverts all of Pinkbell's commands and shows signs of being able to bring life out of the almost sterile soil. Similarly, Miss Madrigal changes the way in which Laurel is being brought up. Laurel ran away to her grandmother on the night before her mother remarried. However, Miss Madrigal sees in the mother the one chance for Laurel to develop in an atmosphere of life, so she convinces her to rejoin her mother. And to unify the two situations, when Laurel leaves with her mother...