Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another man poked his head in the door, then walked away. Don Blackwell, immediately realizing that the potential customer thought he had a long wait since the shop was full of people, ran after the fellow, explaining that the shop was full of people, not customers, and that he would be next. The man came back...
...Europe, Reagan will urge his fellow leaders to remind their own citizens that the West is far less dependent now on oil shipments through the Persian Gulf than it was in 1973-74 and 1979, when supplies ran seriously short. His point: the biggest threat to Western economies is not a real shortage of oil but an unjustified surge of panic buying and price boosts...
...into hiding. The following week the Soviets claimed Massoud was dead. Within hours, the rebel leader's voice crackled over the Soviet army's secret radio network, accurately describing the weather, the Soviet positions and their casualties that day. Meanwhile, in whatever direction Soviet tanks turned, they ran across rebel-laid land mines. According to Western diplomats in the Afghan capital of Kabul, casualties were so high that gravediggers at the local cemetery worked overtime to bury up to 40 soldiers...
This year however, the committee's attempt to give college presidents greater say over athletic policy--by setting up a panel of college presidents with veto power over the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)--ran into opposition at the NCAA annual convention in January. After a watered-down version of the plan was approved. Bok said he would retire from his prominent role in the debate in order to spend more time on fundraising and appointments...
...They ran into each other again at auditions for a Loeb Experimental Theater production of a play called Kaspar, in which, as it happened, they both got parts. Rauch played a prompter, which meant he had to go up to the balcony and scream down Warner played one of five alter-egos of the main character. Kaspar, and spend a lot of time hopping around the stage on crutches Rehearsals were "endless" and neither of them could quite figure out what the play meant...