Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine. Their training in athletics, fitness and handicrafts can soon turn political. At the Black Sea camp of Artek last summer, Pioneers wrote postcards to President Reagan urging him to accept Soviet peace proposals; during a broadcast of the TV show I Serve the Soviet Union, Pioneers ran obstacle courses and assembled machine guns, all under the watchful eyes of KGB border guards...
Even before graduating last year from Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School in Maryland, he had published several scholarly papers on the subject. At the opposite end of the age spectrum is Paul Kristeller, 78, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. Ever since he ran out of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1980, Kristeller has been working without assistance on a six-volume listing of Renaissance manuscripts. MacArthur's $300,000 grant, he says, will "improve my chance of continuing and possibly completing this project before it is too late...
Figure skaters can only wish for a competition as clean as a clock. The complaints over judging this time ran from Canadian Gary Beacom, declaring, "We're not trained monkeys, we're human beings," to American Michael Seibert, murmuring, "It hurts when it's your only chance for an Olympic medal." Partly because of the music they skated to, Seibert and Partner Judy Blumberg finished fourth, behind two sets of Soviets and the elegant British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean...
...been more different. Did Debbie ("Who?") Armstrong boast that she was going to win the women's G.S.? Not likely. This chunky, round-faced and unknown young woman with the great grin didn't dare to think about winning even after the race was over. But she ran second behind the fine U.S. racer Christin Cooper in the first run, and after the second, fizzing with joy and unburnt energy, she had taken the gold .4 sec. ahead of Cooper, who finished with a silver. "I was so high and happy, and it was so much fun," Armstrong...
Still, he credited the team with "their best outing of the year," as they ran their dual match record...