Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gompers, who is returning to school after a year off, ran away from the field at the gun and sprinted to an easy victory. He finished the 5.2-mile course in 25:27, 26 seconds ahead of second-place Jon Warren of Rice...
...final moments of the hijacking ordeal that survivors disagreed over whether the firing and the explosion of hand grenades had lasted as briefly as 30 seconds or as long as five minutes. Many of the luckiest passengers, who skidded unhurt down the escape chutes, were so terrified that they ran for several hundred yards without stopping until they reached the nearest of the airport's three terminals...
Dozens of others, suffering from shock and injury, milled around the tarmac. Some of the more seriously wounded lay on the pavement. As ambulances arrived, security personnel frantically waved them to a halt, then loaded them with the injured and dying. When rescue workers ran out of ambulances, they pressed pickup trucks into service, and these joined the long line of vehicles heading toward local hospitals...
...They were shouting at us in pitch darkness, and then we totally panicked when they threw a hand grenade at the passengers." At that point, said British Passenger Michael Thexton, "everyone made a dash for it. I climbed out onto a wing and jumped down onto the tarmac and ran." Catherine Dumas, of Lafayette, N.J., who escaped the plane without a scratch but suffered a sprained ankle when a nervous ambulance driver ran over her foot, called the scramble "one of those Three Stooges comedy situations." By that time the Pakistani commandos | were moving in on the plane. Moments later...
...light, and in the soothing precinct of his mother's remembered body. What anxiety was to Giacometti or sexual rage to Picasso, nurture and shelter were to Moore. His commitment to sculpture as an act of hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with the hands, one in which sight preceded touch. (Who ever wanted to stroke a Gonzalez or a David Smith?) His impulse to preserve the traditional values of carving...