Word: ran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When fans ran on the track at the end of the night. Maiern, the track announcer for the night, yelled. "Hey come on, we can't have that. If you want us to bring supercross back to Foxboro next year, we can't have that kind of behavior." Foxboro police said it was hard to compare the supercross crowd to a football crowd because it was much smaller, but they reported only one fight and a handful of minor incidents. An average football game may send upwards of 25 people to the police station. Clearly supercross has a long...
...clock ran down, both sides played fiercely for the win and with only 1:40 remaining it looked like Canada had won the game, but Gray scooped up a Regan header and slipped the ball into the net. Seconds earlier Mitchell had been flagged for knocking down Iraq's goalie, causing the score to be disallowed...
...broken seven world records and essentially every American mark indoors, outdoors or on the highway. But Decker runs so hard, she powders her bones. Her shins, ankles and feet have been in and out of the shop since Little Mary was twelve, when she ran a marathon one day and a 440 and 880 the next. "From the knees up, she's world class," says her coach, Dick Brown. "Although her knees and lungs and heart and mind want to go 80 miles a week, her calves and ankles can't take...
Single people speak of other single people as being "geographically undesirable." Such is traffic. The morning paper ran a feature on people driving around with entire wardrobes hanging from a rod suspended over the back seat, the easier to spend the night far from home and go to work the next day in a fresh outfit. "Liberation," said a liberated woman reader, "has turned us into goddamned gypsies...
...Soviets marched into Czechoslovakia, Josef Skvorecky marched out, heading for Canada. On the way, he ran across his countryman Milan Kundera in Paris. Brooding over the Nazi invasion of their homeland during World War II, the Soviet occupation of the moment and the possibility of exile, Kundera sighed, "There's been too much of everything. How much longer do you think we can last...