Word: ran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hole in the ceiling leads to a flashback of her whole horrible life--from when she first ran off with her husband, through when her love attempted to make love to her while her husband was sleeping right next to her, to when she left them both at the bottom of the hole...
Historically, Rusk was not obliged to make even that concession. U.S. Pres idents have frequently ignored congressional advice when it seemed necessary or convenient to do so. Lincoln ran the Civil War far more highhandedly than Lyndon Johnson has ever operated in Viet Nam, and Franklin Roosevelt in effect launched lend-lease, virtually committing the U.S. to active involvement in World War II, three years before asking Congress to vote...
Thieu's action marked the first time since the days of Diem that a Vietnamese chief of state had directly appointed province chiefs. Previously, that had been the prerogative of the commanders of the country's four military corps, who often ran their regions like warlords. By coincidence, Thieu had ousted two of the commanders only last month. 10% O.K. Thieu was merely taking a first step. Like their predecessors, his six new men are all lieutenant colonels or colonels, and as military men may still find it difficult to challenge the generals who are corps commanders. Thieu...
...reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost stories' the accomplished seducer spins to entice a child away with...
...where I asked. Usual when he starts screaming I was in for a beating. But this time I didn't see a belt, so I was off in that department. I was dress and ready to go before he could say (my name). He had a speech dilemma. I ran downstairs, and asked Mom what's wrong with Pop. She only reply: What is right with...