Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite awkward moments here and there, the trip worked. Even the stern People's Daily ran extraordinarily puffy coverage of Reagan day after day, and the 30-minute Chinese TV news devoted up to ten minutes a night to the capitalist leader. "We have a self-satisfied glow," said a usually stiff-necked White House adviser. "We're walking around with smiles on our faces...
...first black candidate. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972, winning 152 delegates. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass won a single, complimentary vote at the 1888 Republican Convention...
...Jorge Blanco quickly dispatched armored trucks and helicopters to back up police. Soldiers fired into the crowds. According to newsmen on the scene, several agitators suspected of looting were summarily executed. In a battle that lasted two days, 55 were killed, 400 wounded and 5,000 arrested. Property damage ran into millions of dollars...
...logjam at the FCC and griping among the non-Bell newcomers, who see the old Bell companies as getting a head start in mobile service. Says Albert Grimes, vice president of American TeleServices, a company in the Baltimore-Washington market: "The industry was moving at 100 m.p.h. and ran into an agency that was moving...
...thought a hell of a lot about Harvard," said Globe sportswriter Bob Monshan, who has covered Crimson hockey and football. "He always ran a very well-machined press box. Harvard is losing one hell...