Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mangled fingers. To exact obedience, the brothers sometimes deliberately shorted the boys on the crack that was parceled out for them to sell. When the receipts came up short, the boys were forced to work off their shortages, which kept them in bondage for months at a time. "They ran everything on fear and intimidation," says Birchler...
Launched during the Eisenhower era, the U.S.S. Bonefish was a 30-year cold war veteran used for simulating Soviet submarines in naval exercises. But the war games turned deadly last week. As the Bonefish ran at periscope depth 160 miles east of Cape Canaveral, blasts erupted from one of its two battery compartments. Flash fire and toxic gases forced the 92-man crew to abandon ship. Twenty-two crewmen were hospitalized; Navy salvage workers later found the bodies of three crewmen aboard the vessel. The Navy has not yet determined the cause of the accident...
...some instances, the youngsters simply disappear, slipping into the drug underworld for months at a time. Says Michael Sinnott, a Wayne County, Mich., juvenile-probation officer: "People have been walking in saying their kids ran away. But the kids are in the community. In effect, the parents are being told by the children, 'I can't tell you what I'm doing or where I am because if I do, your life may be in jeopardy.' These are eleven-and twelve- and 13- year-olds...
Critics called it the garage sale of the century. Tongue-in-cheek comparisons were made with the opening of King Tut's tomb. But the auction of more than 10,000 items owned by America's most infamous artist, which ran throughout last week and had two more days to go this week, turned out to be a fitting tribute to the huckster of hype. "If he's sitting up there watching, he's probably having a ball," said Diana Brooks, president of Sotheby's North America, which conducted the sale in its Manhattan showrooms...
...limit its extension to 15 rather than 25 years. Nunn voted against ending a filibuster holding up a fair-housing bill in 1980, opposed a 1978 move to extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment, and has supported a constitutional amendment to limit abortion. In 1972 Nunn ran as an antibusing ! candidate and supported George Wallace for President. Nonetheless, he has long enjoyed cordial relations with Atlanta's black establishment, including such people as Andrew Young, John Lewis and Coretta Scott King. Their support for him as Vice President, however, could be tempered...