Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this, unfortunately, was about as strange as it got. The time the waitress in the topless bar ran screaming after a man with a thick Greek accent threatening to kill him was unaccountable, but not really strange. Most of the time was spent as an accountant at Touchstone Pictures might have planned, attending brunches, talking with celebrities, attending luncheons, watching movies, attending dinners. We members of the press accumulated our meticulous notes and tape-recordings, got tipsy, ate too much, and sat around being friendly with strangers...
School Committee Member Joseph Casper, who flaunted a conservative record, was not reelected to the council this term, and Rosaria Salerno, who ran on a very progressive platform, was elected for the first time...
...about growing up with an alcoholic father. Somers, who played the voluptuous nit-brain Chrissy on the TV hit Three's Company, describes family meals that ended in a cascade of broken dishes and foul-mouthed rages that left her cowering in the closet. As she got older she ran away in other ways: school problems; an early, unwanted pregnancy and marriage; and a bad-check charge (later dismissed). After her breakthrough film roles in American Graffiti and Magnum Force, her therapist observed that she was ill prepared for good fortune. Somers' sister and two brothers all followed their father...
...America the great uprising on the political and cultural left was answered by the rising of George Wallace's army on the right. Wallace, truculent and charismatic in a darkling way, ran a third-party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion...
Former college President Gerard T. Indelicato last month was accused of embezzling the federal funds from an adult education program which he ran. Indelicato allegedly used the education center as a false front from...