Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michigan's Charlie Brewster ran away from the rest of the field in under 29 minutes, with Gompers placing 11th...
Fred Fletcher '88 ran a paper through his new spelling program one day, and lost the whole paper. Thorpe's roommate finished writing a paper one day, got up, stretched and kicked the power out, turning the computer off and losing his paper And the stories of 20-page papers lost though pushing one wrong button...
...named the new party chief on Saturday. Most observers believe that Alia, Albania's President since 1982, has been the effective ruler since Hoxha began to withdraw from public view last year because of poor health and a desire to add to his published works, which at his death ran to 39 volumes...
...Tamils," says a U.S. official, "have been on the losing end of Sri Lankan democracy for decades." Simmering unrest finally came to a boil in July 1983. After the Tigers killed 13 soldiers in an ambush, Sinhalese mobs ran wild through Colombo, killing at least 412 Tamils and leaving 100,000 others homeless...
Psychologist Paul Ekman ran the film over and over until he found the clue. Mary, a housewife who had attempted suicide three times and had been confined to a mental institution, appeared chipper and confident onscreen as she asked - her doctor for a weekend pass. Her interview, secretly shot for research purposes, was so convincing that Mary got the pass, but she subsequently admitted that she had been lying and had wanted to get away for another suicide try. By slowing down the film, Ekman found that Mary's face had sagged into despair, a telltale "microexpression" that lasted only...