Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developed in 1922 as the nation's first planned shopping center. There the floodwaters smashed storefronts and swept cars along like toys. At the Plaza III, flooded with 5 ft. of water in 14 minutes, the bartender escaped the onrushing tide by ducking behind his bar. As he ran for the street, the glass wall behind the bar collapsed. By the time he found his wife at the nearby restaurant where she worked as a waitress, their new car was gone-washed away into the creek...
After sailing through the House last month largely intact, President Carter's energy program ran into rough weather in the past two weeks, during the early stages of its passage through the Senate. On the floor and in the opening committee skirmishes of a battle that is likely to drag on through the fall, the Senate reflected deep disagreement with parts of the plan. Unlike the House, the Senate is tackling the omnibus bill piecemeal; a few of the proposed changes strengthen the program but most weaken...
...Soap" coalition formed by the Southern Baptists and nine other religious and civic organizations has been pressuring local stations and sponsors to boycott the program. As of last week, 17 of ABC's outlets did not run Soap. In addition, 47 stations in the South and Midwest ran the show an hour later than the network...
Deductions for mortgage interest would be restricted, but not in a way to bother the vast majority of homeowners. Deductions would be limited to $10,000 of interest a year; at present rates, a homeowner would have to be carrying a mortgage of about $110,000 before he ran afoul of that provision...
...female monkey 3 gin fizzes and she ran up and down a rope ladder, and the Clever girl was christened by a Russian princess I should like to have violated and there were strawberry gin fizzes and drunken dancing and I was fortunate to get home...