Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left-wing Socialist Gaston Defferre, who has brought efficiency to his long mismanaged city, won revenge for the loss of his Assembly seat in November by polling more than four times as many votes for mayor as the U.N.R. In Lyon, Jacques Soustelle, the dynamic organizer of the U.N.R., ran a poor third after Radical Socialists and Communists. The one big U.N.R. victor was Jacques Chaban-Delmas, president of the National Assembly, who could point to an outstanding twelve-year record as mayor of Bordeaux...
...back rooms, allied resentment ran deep. If France could pull its ships out of NATO unilaterally, asked NATO officers, what was to prevent Bonn from one day deciding to deny NATO the twelve West German divisions that are the keystone of NATO ground strength? "The French aren't acting like allies," snapped one Western diplomat. "If everyone can come and go as he pleases, we don't have an alliance." Actually the French had previously pulled out pledged NATO divisions to fight in Algeria without a by-your-leave, and on other occasions-including the U.S. transfer...
...became prostitutes in order to support their parents were praised for filial piety. Every woman trod the Path of the Three Obediences: to her father before marriage, to her husband when she was wed, to her son if she became a widow. "The Japanese wife needs no religion," ran the saying. "Her husband is her sole heaven...
...Vincenzina and Enzo were in love, and they ran away together. It was then that the question of Vincenzina's honor came up. Six years before, she confessed in tears, when she was 15, there had been Ernesto-Ernesto who was "so handsome that girls ate him with their eyes." But it was all over now, and Ernesto had married. Although Enzo himself was not married to Vincenzina, he was outraged by her confession, took her home to her family. Vincenzina's father was shamed, ordered her out of the house, and draped black cloth over his front...
...Splash!" Speaking to the Sisters of Nevers, the Pope recalled the institute maintained by the same order in Venice. "They enlarged it here and enlarged it there-until finally the good sisters had to stop because Venice is on the sea and splash! they ran the risk of falling in." He concluded: "Now let us pray for you, for your families, and also for the Pope-because, to tell the truth, I want to live a long time. I like to live...