Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winthrop's championship 9-0-0 touch football squad was inspired by the offensive play of Steve "fast as hell" Skoler, who Winthrop athletic secretary Doug Richards said "ran right by the opposition...
...under the glare of television lights, after a five-month closed inquiry during which it examined documents and took depositions. For the next four weeks, five of the justices and 13 staff members presented a picture of the California Supreme Court as a place where personal pettiness and inefficiency ran rampant...
...amateur golfer who became the first man to win both the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur championships in the same year (1916) and who toured the greens with five Presidents; in Chicago. A former caddie, Indianapolis-born "Chick" Evans had to drop out of Northwestern University when he ran out of funds. He went on to compete in a record 50 successive U.S. amateur championships and in 1930 contributed his winnings to establish the Evans Scholars Foundation, which has enabled more than 4,000 former caddies to attend college...
...draconian measures have first hit the housing industry. Last week the National Association of Home Builders called an emergency meeting in Washington to bewail the high mortgage rates. The group's economist, Michael Sumichrast, darkly predicted that housing starts, which ran at a 1.9 million annual rate in September, will soon be cut in half. The soaring cost of money, he claimed, has already forced 10 million Americans to abandon temporarily plans for that dream house...
Fouts took over from his dead-armed and ineffective hero in the fourth game of his rookie season, and went on to endure six chaotic years as the best target on one of pro football's worst teams. The Chargers ran through six offensive coordinators in seven seasons, and shed head coaches almost as frequently. With the arrival of former St. Louis Cardinals Head Coach Don Coryell in 1978, Fouts took off like one of his own passes. Coryell installed a sophisticated passing offense, a "tree" system that sends swarms of receivers downfield to move across predetermined "branches...