Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McIntyre booted one off the side of his foot. It spiralled high and out of bounds. Repsher tore across the sidelines, ran across a gravel road, and climbed the first step of the Stadium to barely get a hand on the ball. "Don't chase 'em across the road," a coach yelled. "Leave 'em go if they're out of bounds...
...buzzing Harvard Observatory. Old Cronin kept his hands off the local moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected--much like milk from the farms--from the county's pot stills...
...movies with a boldness commendable but rare in his breed. If Zinsser thought a movie was poor, he said so. A Farewell to Arms was, in his view, "vulgar to the point of nausea." He found South Pacific to be "arty and distracting." Ten days after this last comment ran in the Herald Tribune, the disrespectful Zinsser was no longer reviewing movies; he was writing editorials...
...current. When the electrode is placed close to a piece of metal and the current applied, the metal is vaporized to the same shape as the electrode pattern. With this process the hardest metals have been shaped as easily as cast iron, and the machines are automatic, e.g., one ran unattended for 72 hours while it shaped a high-speed rotor for the Argonne atomic laboratory...
...Surigao Strait might be called Operation By-the-Book. The first section of the Japanese southern force sailed into a night slaughter of destroyer torpedoes and heavy fire from cruisers and old battleships, with a single Jap destroyer surviving to join the second section, which simply turned tail and ran...