Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quaker offense took the field and got off three plays for 15 yards before time ran out on the third quarter...
Unfortunately, the tabulations ran into unforeseen delays, and the results were not final until 1:30 a.m., four later than expected Computing Center Manager Peter J. Heffernan said OIT's card reader got fouled up because of the poor condition of some of the cards. "Some of the cards had been folded or bent," said Heffernan. "They had to be smoothed out before the reader would accept them...
...Crimson took over again from its own 21 Frnst and Mike Granger put together a string of successful rushes to get the ball to midfield as time ran out in the first quarter...
...Globe's foremost problem is self-righteousness and lack of restraint. When the paper campaigned for handgun control and a bottle bill, it ran hundreds of "news" stories that openly argued its views. Globe-endorsed candidates seem to receive more sympathetic news treatment than their rivals. Janeway concedes that the paper has a "cacophony of columnists" and undervalues reporting. Cultural and life-style coverage has sagged. On local news, the Globe is too often scooped by its sole surviving Boston rival, the Herald (circ. 344,000), which has been revivified since it was bought in December 1982 by Australian...
...also wearisomely repetitive. The horrors there on the page are visually ingenious, but they never echo in the mind. Jack Sawyer has two unvarying reactions, fearfulness and pluck. The co-written sentences are so gaudy and muscular they seem phony, like the deltoids of a bodybuilder ("The alligator-thing ran with slow, clumsy, thudding determination. Its eyes sparkled with murderous fury and intelligence. The vestiges of breasts bounced on its scaly chest...