Word: ran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legs. At the height of that folly, smoke was belching from millions of tiny, homemade backyard steel furnaces stoked by peasants-a fantastic waste of manpower that eventually resulted in serious food shortages. When the do-it-yourself mania finally ran its course, China's economy had been set back by nearly a decade...
...related by British Agent Greville Wynne in his 1967 book Contact on Gorky Street. Returning to his hotel one night, Wynne recalled, he found a "dark, smiling girl" in his bed. Forewarned by British intelligence as to what to do in such circumstances, he left the door open, ran downstairs, and told the clerk that his room had been rented to someone else by mistake. Then he went for a walk...
...troupe, and was standing in St. Peter's Square when the Pope passed by. The two did not speak, noted L'Osservatore; yet "the Pope observed Cody with curiosity, and when he passed before him, the great explorer bowed deeply while receiving the papal benediction." No story ran then because it was not an official audience. But now it could be told: L'Osservatore was reviewing a new book, Buffalo Bill, True and False, by Italian Author Giuseppe Rivarola...
Delightful Cow Paths. As with any authentic primitive painter, Blair's first subject was the farm-and the oldtime farm at that. Blair had all the credentials. Back in 1888, when Blair was born, his father ran the local Grange store in Cadmus, Kans. As a child he earned 50? a day by working from sunup to sundown in the surrounding fields. He thought he hated it-the boredom, the ignorance, the poverty. "A cow path is delightful if you are out for a stroll, but not if you are trying to get somewhere," he observed later...
...blackouts forced Parisians to dine in cafés by the flicker of candles or the glow of gas lamps. About 150,000 workers marched along rain-splattered streets to the Place de la Bastille. Students crashed the demonstration and when they surged through the workers' lines, they ran into riot police. More than 230 were arrested...