Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sail against the tide of public opinion to come out with the story that ran in today's paper. And that's precisely what a truly fine newspaper must do sometimes...
...fresh one, yuk yuk!" I was just about to try vomiting in self-defense when someone pre-empted me by incapacitating my assailant with a wide swing of one of her suede Nancy Sinatra boots. As he slumped forward, I fell safely to the pavement and ran as fast as I could...
More traditional, though by now epidemic, is the celebrity candidate. In 1986 alone, there will be one Love Boat star, two Kennedys and a perfect-game pitcher (Jim Bunning, Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Mets, June 21, 1964) running for Congress. Clint Eastwood ran for mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. (1 sq. mi., no street addresses, 67 art galleries, 40 jewelry stores) and won in a walk. And there have been near misses: in the past year, we have come close to seeing Harry Belafonte run for the Senate in New York, and Charlton Heston and Fess Parker...
...magazine publishers defended their product. Said Playboy Enterprises President Christie Hefner: "The idea that Playboy, which has stood for positive, healthy sex for three decades, should be linked to violent pornography is absurd." Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse and Forum, responded by taking out an ad that ran in newspapers across the country. Declared Guccione: "Just as I have every constitutional right to publish Penthouse, so you, too, have every right to read it or ignore it." So, presumably, does 7-Eleven have a right to refuse to stock such publications...
...long ago, an outraged and brutalized public insisted that criminals serve longer sentences for the crimes they commit. But soon, as one might expect, prisons simply ran out of space. In Concord Prison, one of Massachusett's medium security correctional facilities, six-by-ten-foot cells that were designed to hold one inmate now have two sleeping in bunk beds. Rooms that were meant to be recreational areas or infirmaries now house 20 to 30 prisoners. Each week, the number grows...