Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats held their convention in the Omni in Atlanta, and had to turn VIPs and members of the press away when they ran out of room. The Republicans, however, have plenty of room in the Superdome, which is large enough to hold George Bush and 35,000 of his friends...
...removed by the Senate, Harry Claiborne of Las Vegas, in 1986, had previously been convicted of tax fraud by a criminal court. But in one unexpected sense, Hastings will find himself at the center of a stage that he has long wanted to play on: in 1970 he ran unsuccessfully for election to the U.S. Senate...
...wishes, addressing letters to him, "Dear Cuckold." That spirit helped her to deal with her son's affair with one of her friends, her daughter's nervous breakdown and Joyce's death. It also helped her finally convince Joyce to agree to marry her, 27 years after they first ran away together...
Larry wants his kids' upbringing to mirror his own. "I try to work with my boys to revert them back to my childhood," he says. "When I was small, I ran in the mountains. We went into the creeks and dammed up a swimming hole. I try to get them to relate to nature themselves. Try to show them there are other things out there than alcohol and drugs. David, he is respondin' real well, fishin' and huntin'. A lot of parents, they say they want to raise children different than the way they themselves were raised. I'm proud...
Sometimes, though, John David imagines a group of older kids trying to force drugs on him. "I might try to run where there is a bunch of people. But if I ran, they would just gang up and beat me up. They might carry knives, and they would stab me. They would probably leave the knife in and run off," he says. "The other option is just to take the drugs, but I don't know if with just one, you'd get addicted to it. Just depends on what kind of drug they put in it. Those...