Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With about 30 seconds to go I ran outside of the control room," he remembers. "I wanted to see it with my own eyes, and hear it, too. It lifted off, and I watched it rise up over the fields...
...Oasis Mobile Home Park, which contains 1,200 homes, would have been devastated if the plane had not broken up so quickly. Donna Freer, 33, was baking a pecan pie when her mobile home was rocked by the explosion just 150 yds. away. She ran outside to see an elderly couple, John and Mary Bielski, standing in their underwear just outside their flaming house. They were shaken but unhurt. Two other residents of the park were burned, one critically...
...jury found Kerr-McGee Corp. negligent in the handling of highly radioactive plutonium because it did not protect Silkwood, a lab technician, from contamination. The jury awarded her three children $10.5 million. She herself was killed mysteriously in 1974 when her car ran off a road as she was on her way to give evidence of the plant's carelessness to a New York Times reporter...
Encouraged, Jordan turned to the typewriter, determined to make a sale before the $3,000 in his savings account forced him to return to teaching. In 1970, just before the money ran out, his first article was sold to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; since then he has handled dozens of magazine assignments and produced four other books including A False Spring, among the best books ever written about baseball-or, for that matter, about growing up. "I had to write that book," Jordan says. "It was my way of coming to terms with myself and what happened to me. Once...
...waiting. It intercepted the Palestinians, captured one guerrilla and chased the others back into Lebanon. Then, with the support of its Lebanese Christian allies under the command of Major Sa'ad Haddad, an Israeli force of at least 400 pushed four miles into Lebanese territory until it ran head-on into United Nations peace-keeping forces and was made to withdraw...