Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while setting up his ruminations on what he had once put into a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. Here he committed one of his few verbal slips, citing "the policies of weakness of the last four years," when he meant the Carter-Mondale term. Then he ran out of time, just as he was warming to an inspirational peroration. Reagan smiled good-naturedly when Moderator Edwin Newman chopped him off with half a minute of the conclusion he had prepared still to go. Rarely has a President been so abruptly interrupted, but those were the rules...
...establishment, based in a brownstone, took 60% of each woman's earnings. The women had to shave their legs daily, and Barrows kept careful menstrual and weight charts on them. Those who got a bit flabby were suspended from work for two days for each extra pound. "She ran a pretty tight ship," concedes one police officer...
Twenty-five candidates, net limited to members of the council, ran for the student slots on the permanent committee the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibilities (ACSR), Athletics, Advising and Counselling, and Library...
...Dartmouth undergrads didn't leave Harvard's older representatives any too thrilled, either. At halftime, before either band could take the field, a Big Green mass of freshmen swarmed onto the field and formed a mammoth "88," as tall as the field is wide, and ran in circles chanting "Harvard sucks...
Gompers simply ran away from the field in the men's race, taking top honors in 26:11.9 over the five-mile course. During the next 20 seconds two more Cantabs--Cliff Sheehan and Ed Steinfeld--charged in to seal the Crimson...