Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this year, Richard Berendzen, president of the American University in Washington, ran ads in educational journals for two deanships, one in arts and sciences, the other in the law school. Hundreds of responses poured in, but not a single one, Berendzen noted, was from a black applicant. At about the same time, Patricia Snyder, 42, faced the bleak prospect of having to abandon her graduate studies in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) because she could not meet her annual tuition and off-campus living expenses of $16,000. If she had left, the department...
...still prospering. "The more business, the more people are attracted and the more people, the more business. Only thing is we need some place to park. I talk about the old days--that's not so long ago (Wagner is only 44)--I knew everybody, the guy who ran the grocery store, the guy in the hardware store. I don't know anybody who owns these businesses. The people next door are from New Jersey. I don't know them. Some local people are doing well already. People just up the street sold their house...
...heroine of the Broadway musical Mame, which was based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame, written by her nephew Edward Everett Tanner III under the pen name Patrick Dennis; of pneumonia precipitated by a stroke; in a New York City nursing home. For more than three decades she ran a salon for struggling artists, writers, self-styled radicals and, later, drifters. In 1964, unable to meet mortgage payments, she was evicted from her house, prompting a deputy sheriff on the case to remark, "She is an amazing woman . . . In an earlier time, she might have been a saint...
...second down, quarterback Rob DeVirgilio missed a handoff, but salvaged the play, cutting outside and scrambling 31 yards to the Adams 16. Lillig then ran to the four, giving Kirkland first and goal...
Lennon, who compiled 74 yards on just nine carries, spelled out Mather's imminent doom when he ran for a touchdown on Leverett's first offensive play of the game...