Word: ran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those with such an eye to history, the garden represents a chance to create something that lasts. In the late Middle Ages, when plague ran rampant through Europe, explains Historian Barbara Tuchman, survivors feared that the wilderness would return because there would not be enough people alive to hold it back. "Gardening," she says, "is a ritual that responds to a desire in people to restore order." Even today she finds that the appeal of her own garden lies in a sense of permanence and renewal. "It says that everything is fine in the midst of chaos and bewilderment...
...defeating the guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, who currently number about 6,000. Some Salvadorans fear such a strategy would mean ignoring a sizable increase in death-squad activities and other human-rights abuses. ARENA Founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former army major who ran against Duarte in the 1984 elections and has since yielded his party's leadership to Cristiani, has been linked by U.S. intelligence to the killer squads that ran amuck in the early 1980s...
...riders sat chugging beer on the bank, cohorts roared past at breakneck speeds, narrowly missing other vehicles. Music blasted from portable radios and car stereos, commingling with the whoops of riders and the growl of unmuffled engines. The air stank of gasoline. Usually clear, the Black River in places ran the crayon green of a sewage ditch as algae were stirred up by the commotion...
...Radcliffe varsity crews, stroking in the national championship held over the weekend in Corning, N.Y., ran into a few natural obstacles-raging headwinds and waves, which resulted in a delay of the national championship race itself...
Shultz is reporting to Assad that the U.S. plan for Middle East peace talks ran into a dead-end in Israel and Jordan...