Word: ran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hitler's Wrath. Gehlen was a colonel on the General Staff in Russia in 1942 when the Wehrmacht suddenly ran into unexpected Soviet resistance. Gehlen was given the mission-until then largely ignored by the overconfident Germans-of assessing the capabilities of the Red Army. As chief of intelligence on the Eastern front, he quickly won a reputation for precise forecasting of Russian moves, but his predictions of Soviet victories so angered Hitler that he ordered Gehlen sent to an insane asylum...
...drawback, of course, is that much of TV programming has little to do with the real world. Adults are often depicted as bickering, tension-ridden morons. If, for instance, Video Boy had Lucy for a mother and Fred Flintstone for a father, who could blame him if he ran off to join the flower children...
...contrast, CBS's Super Bowl coverage was unimaginative and, worse, cluttered with cliches and network promotions. One "promo" actually ran right through a kickoff. Paid commercials also got in the way-but it was easy to see why. Commercial time for the Super Bowl telecast sold for an unprecedented $150,000 a minute...
...While I was waiting to take the physical I ran into at least eight or nine people who were planning to go to jail or to leave the country if inducted," Shetterly added. He said that three of these came from Harvard Graduate Schools--one from the School of Design, one from the Divinity School, and one from GSAS...
News of the secret-and never-used -pact was broken, improbably enough, by the University of Michigan's campus newspaper, the Michigan Daily. Its editor, Senior Roger Rapoport, who had worked in the Wall Street Journal's Detroit bureau last summer, ran a seven-page draft of a mutual-aid agreement that had been prepared last July -two months before expiration of the Big Three's contracts with the United Auto Workers-by General Motors' cost-analysis department...