Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best was yet to come. With Harvard facing a third and goal from the six in the second quarter--an obvious passing situation--the Crimson crossed up Penn with an option run. Yohe ran down the line, and seeing his option back covered, decided to carry it himself. He was met by a group of defenders at the two, but managed to leap and stretch into the endzone with an extraordinary effort...
After Philadelphia's former law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo was beaten in a 1983 Democratic primary by black City Managing Director Wilson Goode, he refused to stay quietly in retirement. This year Rizzo bolted to the Republican Party and ran for his old job, blasting Goode for the inept fire bombing of a house of black radicals that killed eleven people and destroyed 61 homes. His appeal to his core constituency of white ethnic voters almost worked. Rizzo last week carried the party's heavily Democratic ethnic wards, but some 98% of blacks stuck with Goode, despite his record...
...Schwartzwalder has been gone from the sidelines for 14 seasons, and the team has been gone from the headlines for 20. But everything came back together again at the Penn State game, when the Orangemen ran off to a 41-0 lead and Dick MacPherson quickly summoned the old coach from the press box. "The greatness of Syracuse football, the tradition of it, is Ben Schwartzwalder," says his second successor, now seven years on the job. "The kids just love him. He tells them stories and gets them out of wind sprints." They carried Ben off the field after Penn...
...defeated Roberto d'Aubuisson, an ex-army major who was widely linked with death-squad killings. Duarte opened talks with the F.M.L.N., promised to investigate alleged army massacres of civilians and create new jobs. "Imagine," says one of the country's religious educators, "if Abraham Lincoln came back and ran for President of the United States. That's the kind of expectation some people had of Duarte...
...joined a quasi-religious organization whose members were mostly affluent and conservative. "They wanted to save the world," says Glenn's younger sister Jessie. "In the process, this cult split up our family." The elder Closes moved to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), where Glenn's father, a physician, ran a clinic. The children were left in various boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut...