Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ran over and simpered, "Elena Georgievna, come this way." He led me to a woman in a major's uniform. She said she needed me to fill out the forms for an exit visa...
While arguments with the doctors went on, worse things began. On July 3, 1983, Izvestia ran a letter from four academicians replying to Andrei's article in Foreign Affairs, "The Dangers of Thermonuclear War." Though Andrei stressed "the absolute inadmissibility of nuclear war" and called for "complete nuclear disarmament based on strategic parity in conventional weapons," the Izvestia letter charged that Sakharov "calls for nuclear blackmail directed against his own country." A flood of letters began, as many as 132 one day, that berated and maligned Sakharov. Soon, the magazine Smena published an article by Yakovlev expanding on what...
...Nathanael West, the author of Miss Lonelyhearts. The two men were close friends, then relatives when Perelman married West's sister Laura. It was not, Herrmann reports, a conventional union. Early on, the Perelmans went to Hollywood, where a fellow scenarist, Dashiell Hammett, once noted, "Last night I ran into Sid . . . and wound up by doing a little pimping for him." Soon afterward, Hammett and Laura had a brief fling. It was, Herrmann speculates, "perhaps her way of punishing Sid for his numerous infidelities...
...astute compromise and skillful personal lobbying, the President has managed to persuade reluctant legislators on such hotly contested matters as sending advanced AWACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia and aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. But ) last week Reagan's fabled reserves of luck and persuasion finally ran out. Both houses of Congress voted decisively to override his veto of a bill calling for stiff economic sanctions against South Africa...
...nation's most respected newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post ran extensive coverage in late August and early September, leading to a mild frenzy over the possibility of further U.S. agression against Libya. On August 25, the Journal featured a front page story that detailed renewed U.S. military maneuvers geared toward a possible second strike against Khaddafy. The Post featured a series of articles reporting that the U.S. had strong evidence that Khaddafy was again planning terrorist activities...