Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February 9, 1988, The Crimson ran an article, in which I was quoted, about a complaint made against Professor Stephan Thernstrom. The handling of information and chosen angle of the article ignored the issue. It was incorrect to assume that Thernstrom's remarks in lecture was the complete source of my complaint. Also, equally important issues I discussed, but were not addressed in the article, are: why were his remarks offensive, how they were interpreted, and what questions did they leave...
...portraying women confident enough to act on their own, outside of their stereotypical domain. Unlike most of the bubble-headed, husband-dominated wives of 50's sitcoms, Lucy was feisty and determined. On I Love Lucy, it was obvious that, in one way or another, Lucy and Ethel really ran and controlled the show. And later, on The Lucy Show, Lucy and Viv were surely among TV's first single mothers; Viv's character was even divorced...
...front of a sold-out Sanders Theater audience, the Harvard sophomore ran into the crowd during the traditional number, grabbed a bouquet of roses, knelt by fellow sophomore Jennifer W. Durham and sang, "Marry me." When Durham accepted a diamond engagement ring, the audience erupted into a five minute standing ovation...
...Emotions ran so high before the vote that Owen's backers refused to sleep in the same hotel as the promerger forces. Social Democratic President Shirley Williams angrily accused Owen, a former Labor Foreign Minister, of "acting with impetuosity at the moment of crisis" and warned that "all of us will be losers" if the proposed union did not pass. "Mergerites" tried to block a rally that Owen had called to launch his group, but they backed down after both sides assembled legal teams...
...doubt or question whether I'm going to do a triple or a quadruple in one spot." Orser's confidence will be the key to whether he triumphs or stumbles. Although he has had a lock on the Canadian title for eight years, he has often been an also-ran at the international level. After taking the silver medal at the 1984 Olympics, just behind America's Scott Hamilton and three places ahead of Boitano, Orser placed second in three successive world championships. Last year he took the title...