Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instinct tells him not to upstage the oxbow chest. It is a prize, one of the four or five best pieces to be offered. Yesterday at the preview here, dealers prowled around it, old predators who carried their age with arrogance. Kenneth Hammitt, a veteran dealer from Woodbury, Conn., ran his eye approvingly over its shaped serpentine top and guessed that it would bring about $25,000. Then Jack Partridge, an old friend and adversary from North Edgecomb, Me., showed up with a couple of Withington's helpers. As the auction hands turned the chest over so that Partridge could...
Although administrators review the backgrounds of most Board of Overseers candidates and present alums with an endorsed slate to chose from, several ran without University backing last year...
...time in the past year that Bok directly involved himself in the job of fending off detractors ended in a public relations nightmare. After three pro-divestment alumni ran together for seats on the Board of Overseers, Bok directed the governing board's president to send a much-maligned disclaimer to alumni. That letter, included in the offical election packet and signed by overseer president Joan T. Bok '51, criticized the pro-divestment platform, claiming that election of those candidates would substantially change the nature of the board...
500th officials, like their 350th ancestors, have had to defend them-selves against charges that their party is a mere fundraiser in the guise of a more sacred event. (The white males who ran Harvard in the late 20th century went to their graves denying the much-rumored connection between the surplus from the 350th and the subsequent development and deployment of the Harvard Space Shuttle, which proved invaluable when the College opened its Lunar Extension School...
...sorting letters when the shooting started. "I froze. I couldn't run. He came to shoot the clerks in the box section next to mine. I just knew I was next." But as she hid, Sherrill passed her by and opened fire on the next section. As Smith ran for the front door, she said, "I could hear all the clerks screaming as they were shot." Another employee escaped by locking herself in a vault where stamps are kept. Two other survivors hid in a broom closet...