Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 1974 the Panamanian cultural attaché ran a red light in Washington and plowed into another car, permanently paralyzing one of its passengers, Dr. Halla Brown, 66. After 19 months of hospitalization and round-the-clock nursing care at home, her medical bills have exceeded $300,000, but she could never collect a dime from the attaché. Two years later, a car driven by a Senegalese embassy chauffeur struck and killed a 19-year-old road worker in suburban Virginia. The embassy carried no liability insurance on the car, and the victim's family could not then...
...more than a generation, Strom Thurmond has been a legend in South Carolina. As Governor in 1948, he indignantly walked out of the Democratic National Convention to protest the civil rights plank in the party platform and ran for President as a Dixiecrat. In the Senate he became the foremost filibusterer against civil rights legislation, declaring that there would never be enough laws on the books or troops in the Army to force the South to integrate. In 1964 he bolted the Democrats for good, joined the Republican Party, and later was part of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy...
...mechanic, is already working and I've had letters and phone calls from the family and they say everything is all right there." Angelino José de Castro, 23, formerly a rural schoolteacher in Angola, and his wife Virginia are equally optimistic: "We ran away from the war in Angola in an American plane. But we decided to keep Angolan nationality. So now, for better or worse, we prefer to go to our own country. I know I can get work there and the government has to give us a house. Here I've been mostly...
Last week speculation also ran to names rarely heard before: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 57, Brazil's brave champion of human rights; Joseph Cordeiro, 60, of Pakistan, who exudes saintly simplicity and concern for the poor; and Poland's Karol Wojtyla, 58, who is a strong leader in a hostile environment-and speaks fluent Italian...
...candidates ran for the post, including four former members of the convention. The candidates differed sharply in their views, and the tightness of the race shows there could be significant ideological cleavages among the members...