Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were few students in the last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were 21. The owner of a joint called Porky's rashly advertised a bargain rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue him, the offended scholars had pitched his furniture overboard. The owner kept his temper, next day hired a plane to patrol the beach with a banner advising that the dry spell would not recur...
...Night, It Happens Every Spring. Then Eddie flashed an arch smile for the rest of his fans. "I opened here two years ago," he said. "Since then, nothing much has happened." Having thus wrapped up his marriage to Debbie Reynolds and seven months of sharing headlines with Liz, Eddie ran through the rest of his repertory and retired to his dressing room. Elizabeth followed, trailing Mamma, Papa, secretaries, agents, flacks. "She's lovely." muttered a lady in the audience, "but I wish they'd get married and be done with...
...sorely needs. Week after week, the Phil Silvers Show gave Bilko a chance to prove that noncoms really run the regiment, and week after week Bilko proved that he rated his stripes. Bolder than the brass he heckled, brasher than the brightest operator in his informal command, Bilko ran his outfit with the earthy, barracks-brand humor that can make service life (and TV watching) tolerable. He was one of those rare peacetime soldiers, a guy who never figured to need any "shipping over" music; any Army recruiting sergeant could recognize him as a 30-year man. But Phil Silvers...
...Thomas J. Watson announced a 3-for-2 split and an increased dividend; they bid for Ford after Ford Foundation successfully sold an additional 2,000,000 shares of Ford common without trouble. At the same time, such speculative favorites as General Development and Universal Controls (TIME, March 30) ran into waves of selling, were sporadically held off the market when trading volume on the American Stock Exchange got too great...
...depressed him, for that had improved, but something that he could not pin down bothered him, something about the atmosphere of the University itself. Looking ahead of him, Vag could see his future stretching like a straight railroad track, the parallel rails appearing to come closer together as they ran across his mental landscape...