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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thinking back to those childhood scare stories (Want some candy, little boy? Your daddy sent me to get you. Get in.), I turned tail and ran, for the second time that day. And I don't flee all that often, under normal circumstances. My friend cruised by two minutes later and whisked me off to safety and the comforts of a home away from home...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: So Where Did You Go Over Vacation? | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

...assertion of his independence). His wife Re'uma is the sister of Foreign Minister Dayan's first wife. And in Israel's Likud coalition government, he stands as something of a kingmaker: it was Weizman, the second ranking member in Begin's Herut Party, who ran the campaign that gave Begin his upset victory in last May's elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Weizman: Condemned to Fight | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Fred Walden, chief shop steward for Harvard dining halls and the newly-elected vice-president who ran with Sullivan, said "the election D'Ippolito was running was like a 1934 gangster-style election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Defeats D'Ippolito In Local 26 Union Election | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...dominated by its biggest members, and many of the small owners complain that the B.C.O.A.'S initial hard-line approach to the bargaining was set by large operators who wanted to break the union. Said the owner of a tiny mine in western Pennsylvania: "The big boys ran the B.C.O.A. show, no matter what we thought. They realized that [U.M.W. President] Arnold Miller was weak and a little dumb, and saw their chance to ram a pro-company contract down the union's throat." Added another small operator: "I figure you get a lot further by courting your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Operators: Divided | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Frosh Ran Away...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Classics Pass Century Mark; Hoopsters Notch 100th Victory | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

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