Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Finally the frustrated Mattison decided to walk some ten miles to the Israeli lines with the week's work of six photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador for three years. But, he says of the gauntlet he ran last week, "There were nervous troops from three different militias and the Lebanese Army in the area. There was mortar and sniper fire all around. At one particularly bad moment on the way south, a Lebanese Army trooper shot into the ground at my feet to force me to turn...
Shops closed quickly, but the surge of motorists heading home snarled traffic. Pedestrians, some clutching children, ran or walked briskly along the streets, hurried on by the distant sounds of gunfire. "They are going to start again," complained a grocer as he pulled down the steel shutters in front of his store. "This was coming for some time...
...Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place Pigalle boite. In the '40s and '50s she ran clubs in Mexico City and Rome, then quit in 1961, saying, "I'm tired, honey, tired of staying up till dawn every...
...diplomatic development. Reagan sent Bush because he would not stoop to any act, regardless of its diplomatic or humane merits, that might further detente's evil cause. But Bush is far more than a mere executive flunkie. We should all remember, now more than ever, that George Bush ran the Central Intelligence Agency...
Junior Mariquita Patterson won the long jump with an 18-ft., 1-in. leap, the 55 meter hurdles in 8.43, and ran in the 800 meter relay which Harvard...