Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since his flashes of pique began a year or so ago, Shultz has grown ever more peevish. In Venezuela earlier this month for President Jaime Lusinchi's inauguration, he ran into Richard Stone, Reagan's Central American envoy. "Fancy meeting you here, Dick. Don't you have enough funerals...
...snow. A burial plot had been marked off for Andropov in the special cemetery along the Kremlin wall reserved for prominent Communist leaders. Appropriately, Andropov was buried alongside Felix Dzerzhinsky, the man who in 1917 had founded the security agency that grew into the KGB empire that Andropov ran before becoming party leader...
...Propaganda, or Agitprop. Leonid Brezhnev subsequently was named first secretary of the Moldavian branch of the party. Not long after Brezhnev took over the Soviet party leadership from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964, he moved Chernenko to Moscow and made him head of the party's General Department, where he ran the day-to-day activities of the Central Committee. Chernenko became a full member of the 300-member Central Committee in 1971 and of the Politburo...
During the past few years she has helped organize more than 19 acts of civil disobedience among them the burning of President Reagan in effigy. She has been active in the national Organization for Women, and ran for president of that organization in 1982. The same year she fasted for 37 days in support of ratification...
...another year-long sophomore course my son was subjected to a graduate student who ran the whole course, evidently without the least bit of supervision. Only once during the first semester did this woman trouble herself with writing out paper assignments. And when they were written out, they followed the format I have just described. This graduate student liked to deliver paper topics orally, always at the last minute, so that she had plenty of opportunity to complain afterwards about how the students "really didn't do the assignment" or "focus" in their writing. Of course no one "really" knew...