Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immovable mountain" and pours on the speed to run around it. St. Louis Cardinals Wide Receiver Mel Gray (5 ft. 9 in., 175 Ibs.) dislocated a shoulder trying to take out a bigger man and has since left the blocking to others. "Trying to be a hero, I ran into Dick Butkus. I missed the first five games of the season, and I learned my lesson." His teammate, Running Back Terry Metcalf, 5 ft. 10 in., 185 Ibs., set an N.F.L. record in 1975 for net yardage by cashing in on his size: "I'm smaller and harder...
...spiral curved down, Schwartz ran through more and more women, more and more colleges. He campus-hopped to Princeton, Kenyon, the universities of Chicago, California, Syracuse. His ambition to be the Great American Poet deteriorated into a panicky need for money. Inspiration was replaced by alcohol and amphetamines. The body went to flab, the handsome face to coarseness. Fellow Poet Hayden Carruth remembered Schwartz slouching toward 40: "He looked and spoke like a defeated shipping-house clerk...
Brewster's successor will inherit a salary of about $85,000, a stately mansion -and Yale's grave financial problems. Over a decade, the university's cumulative deficit has climbed to $16.6 million. Last year, Yale spent $209 million and ran $6.6 million in the red, the largest annual deficit in its history...
Bellows' morale was also running low this year after a series of disagreements with his Star boss, Joe L. Allbritton, 52. Texan Allbritton bought the falling Star in 1974 and it ran up losses of $30 million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
...Fine ran the show for coach Frank McLaughlin's Crimson, sparking the offense with 18 points (tops), five assists (ditto) and a style of dribbling that can best be described as fluid...