Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joined the 20-member Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, he was just coming off duty when he heard the sound of gunfire. Over his VHF radio he heard someone shout, "They're attacking ... they're coming over the wall!" Grabbing a shotgun, he ran to the commissary, helped lead some U.S. and Iranian staffers to safety, then moved to a nearby restaurant. Bullets smashed the windows, and fists began banging on the locked door. Kraus radioed Ambassador William H. Sullivan. "I told him it's best that we surrender," he recalled. "There were noncombatants...
...feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...women's hockey team, which earlier this year ran off a streak of six wins in eight contests, dropped its third game in a row Saturday afternoon, a 6-1 decision to Cortland State at Belmont Hill Arena...
...strategy paid off as Dixon ran a strong first leg before handing off to Chafee, who worked up about a six-yard lead which McNulty widened...
...meet in New Haven ran smoothly until an official motioned a false start in the hurdles but his gun failed to fire. Crimson runners Sue Harper and Karen Ueda placed first and second, respectively, in the event; but Princeton, which placed third, contested the Harvard victory...