Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hurdling and middle distance corps looked good, Co-Captain Steve Ezeji-Okoye set a Harvard record in the 110 high hurdles with his time of 14.17. He also won the 400-meter hurdles and ran legs on the two winning relay teams...
Larry Scott ran into a lot of this toughness in his first singles match with Scheller Down 5-2 in the third set, the junior co-captain railed to send the set into a tie breaker-which hen won, 7-5 on a diving volley...
...Kennedy. All of that is, of course, imponderable. As it was, the war shook the Democratic Party for years. Among a number of other divisions, in fact, the party is still split along the lines drawn years ago between hawk and dove, Johnson and Kennedy. Says George McGovern, who ran on an antiwar platform in the 1972 presidential election and was buried in the landslide that gave Richard Nixon a second term: "The Viet Nam tragedy is at the root of the confusion and division of the Democratic Party. It tore up our souls...
Granted, all that glowing media attention does sell more records, and therefore save more lives, but only by lowering life-saving charity to the level of Girl Scouts. While it is true that the American public displayed its usual apathy to the crisis until NBC news ran some footage of dying Africans, at least the people were moved by real emotions of horror, pity, and even guilt USA for Africa peddles the feel-good approach to humanitarianism, turning an act of human concern into the moral equivalent of mouthwash...
...ran right up to the block seconds before the starting pistol, and then performed amazingly, would she change her ritual? "I might think it over a bit," the swimmer says...