Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having installed his first wife Lurleen as Governor, he ran for President as a candidate of his American Independent Party. "It's the working folks all over this country who are getting fed up and are gonna turn this country around," he said. By carrying five states, he almost turned the electoral system around, coming close to causing a stalemate that would have given him the balance of power, but only close. This was Nixon's election...
...intelligence review uncovered what one investigator called "one of the worst leaks in State Department history." Acting with Jimmy Carter's consent, Attorney General Griffin Bell ordered a tap to be placed on the phone of Truong, expatriate son of a South Vietnamese "peace candidate" who ran unsuccessfully in 1967. The FBI quickly traced one of Truong's contacts to the U.S.I.A. The suspect turned out to be Humphrey, a middle-ranking official who had served three years in Viet Nam and was desperately trying to extricate his Vietnamese mistress and her children from Saigon, where they remained...
...clean break, Cauthen dropped Affirmed into second place, waiting for Believe It, third in the Kentucky Derby, to lead the way. When Believe It hung back, Cauthen moved to the front. With stopwatch precision, he then cut the pace, lulling the field into marching to his drumbeat. Affirmed ran the first half-mile in a plater-slow 47 3/5 sec., Cauthen actually managing to rate, or husband, his horse while loping on the lead. Thus, when Jorge Velasquez pushed Calumet Farm's Alydar into his stretch surge, Affirmed was rested and ready to run. Said Cauthen simply: "He came...
...pained expression on a mare's face that her shoes were too tight, and another time he diagnosed a horse's problem as loneliness. Solution: find another lonely horse to share the stall. Jacobs and Bieber raced their horses often, or as one critic sniffed, they ran them "like a fleet of taxi cabs...
Wolfson's luck with the law ran out in the 1960s. Tried two times on securities-related charges, he spent nine unpleasant months in a Florida federal prison. It was during his jail term that Wolfson attained perhaps his greatest notoriety: Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 after admitting that he had concealed the fact that he was receiving $20,000 a year for giving unspecified help to the Wolfson family foundation...