Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller entered the state capitol one morning last week, he was besieged by a group of miners who had come to demonstrate. "What about the National Guard, Governor?" one of them shouted. Rockefeller, whose grandfather ran a mine where the National Guard killed 40 strikers in 1914, yelled back over the din: "I have nothing to say about that. There isn't going to be a problem, is there...
Senior co-captain Jim Hammitt lowered the boom on the "A" competition by steering his sloop to a first-place finish on the Moore Trophy course, which ran from one side of the Throgs Neck Bridge to the other. Laura Brown, the captain of Harvard's women's team, crewed for Hammitt...
...Byrd and Senator Randolph Jennings of West Virginia and Representative Carl Perkins of Kentucky. Support for seizure of the mines seemed shaky. It would be unpalatable to the operators, who had already given way under presidential pressure on the new contract, and might lose still more if the Government ran the mines. While the profits would still go to the owners, wages and work rules would be set by the Government. The takeover, however, would have the grudging approval of the miners, who figure they could get a better contract from the White House than from the operators...
...Sergeant Robert Brack, 29, edged his maroon sedan through the underbrush, his headlights picked out two giant vans. Suddenly there was a roar of boat engines and rifle fire. Pinned down, Brack held off the attackers until help came. Two shrimp boats packed with pot ran aground in the confusion. Surrounded in the thicket, a gang of eleven men was captured, along with $14 million in grass...
...just decide to do something-like fall down a flight of stairs. I usually laugh. He's pretty humorous." Even Crystal confesses to being a touch "terrified" now that Warren has invested in a .44 Magnum. Recently, Zevon was so enjoying brandishing the weapon as he ran around his house wearing a duck mask that friends had to corner and disarm him. "In the '60s," Zevon explains, "I couldn't have conceived of owning a gun. Now in the '70s, I feel that nobody's going to mess with me. You go from mindlessly believing...