Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trucks rumbled out of the plant gates last Tuesday morning carrying low-sulfur coal from the Orgreave coking works, near Sheffield, to a steel mill at Scunthorpe, 40 miles away. With that, Britain's angry, three-month-old miners' strike flared into open war. As the vehicles ran the gauntlet between Orgreave and Scunthorpe, 7,000 picketing miners pelted them with rocks, smoke bombs, ball bearings and nail-studded potatoes. Two thousand policemen charged repeatedly into the crowd on foot and on horseback. By the end of the day, 81 strikers had been arrested and at least...
...extremely rare genetic defect that makes him insensitive to pain. His fingers were either crushed or burned because he did not pull his hand away from things that were hot or dangerous. His bones and joints are misshapen because he pounded them too hard when he walked or ran. His knee had ulcerated from crawling over sharp objects that he could not feel. Should he break a bone or dislocate a hip, he would not feel enough to cry out for help...
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his head, hit the sand, rolled over and ran his hand across his forehead. Sure enough, there was blood. Again they carried him to the medical station. The doctor took some tweezers, picked out a few fragments of metal from his face, slapped on some adhesive bandages and sent him back to fight once more. By then, almost his entire company had been wiped out. For the third time, a shell burst near him. It tore off his leg. He did not feel a thing...
...Andy Kaufman, but he had a gruff, tough persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing a set with his samurai sword or gobbling up the scenery in impersonations that ran the gamut from Kissinger to Brando to Jake Blues, a perfect and loving parody of an oldtime soul...
...user and sometime dealer of heroin, Smith was able to hotfoot it to Canada, where she is still fighting extradition. Woodward is so absorbed in writing about Belushi's demons that he has barely a moment to suggest where they might have originated. Evoking an Albanian father who ran a couple of restaurants in Chicago and was never around for holidays "because they were often the biggest days in the restaurant business" is hardly an adequate way to measure the depths of Belushi's kamikaze Thanatos...