Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing something wrong since Eliot was penalized 14 times for over 150 yards. At one point, Eliot was penalized three times on the same play leaving them with 68 yards to go to a first down. Winthrop was not without its problems; the offensive squad winged every play it ran in the first half...
...Whipple ran three times in this drive himself, first for 11 yards, then for nine, and finally for five and the score. Earlier, he had been sacked six times behind the line of scrimmage, four of them by Bob Baggott, who reads plays like Evelyn Wood reads "War and Peace...
...leaves for Boston, where the last letter received from his veteran brother was postmarked. Hunter, who has already lost one son to the tide of history, figures there is only one things to do--follow Hobie, and bring him back. Failing that, to find out why he ran...
...President ran into his largest protest demonstration since taking office as he arrived at Los Angeles' Century Plaza hotel to address a $1,000-a-ticket dinner dance. Some 2,500 Imperial Valley farmers paraded with tractors, pickup trucks and buses, waving signs pleading for "fairness to farmers." They wanted presidential support against a court action that enforced a long-ignored 160-acre limitation on farms watered by federal irrigation projects. A thousand more demonstrators protested other issues, including the neutron bomb, inadequate welfare programs and high unemployment. Carter used his speech to defend his record, including his controversial...
...broke his block by writing poems in French. (Dabbling in lesser languages removes pressure to perform in mother tongue.) Tom Wolfe, to tally blocked on his first famous article, a story about customized cars for Esquire, wrote a really socko memorandum to his editor on the subject. The editor ran the memo as the article. Wolfe now writes all his articles as memos. (On the other hand he is at least three years late with his current book...