Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same day, Saxon, 39, ran a hose from the exhaust pipe of his motorcycle into the sauna of his $685,000 condo in Venice, Calif. He apparently started the engine, then sat in jeans and socks while the sauna filled with carbon monoxide. When his body was found, so was a tape recording of a message to his estranged wife Susan. It explained that he had killed himself because he could not overcome his mounting business losses...
...horse and five mules and joined the rebels. "Pecos Bill," 29, abandoned his 27,000-acre ranch and 2,500 cattle because, as a former second lieutenant in Dictator Anastasio Somoza's National Guard, he feared reprisals after the Sandinistas took over. Maria Cristina Cuadra, 17, first ran into trouble after she was caught pulling down pictures of Revolutionary Heroes Augusto César Sandino and Carlos Fonseca. Afraid she might be forced to serve in the Sandinista militia, she too decided to join the insurgents...
Many of the advertisers TV put the bite on had already been severely bitten by Ueberroth. In past Olympics, corporate sponsorships ran $150,000 to $200,000 at most and were something less than exclusive. Montreal associated itself with 168 official products; Moscow signed up 200. Ignoring everything Baron de Coubertin had said about dignity, the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., found 381 buyers for the Olympic label, including an official chewing tobacco. By contrast, the L.A.O.O.C. has held down the number of sponsors to 30, but the charge is a minimum $4 million for each (Lake Placid...
...entire world was staggering from the effects of the Depression, and many countries felt they could not even afford to send athletes to a place as distant as California. "Just where is your state?" a Portuguese bureaucrat politely asked William May Garland, president of the group of businessmen who ran the California Olympics. When Garland marked the spot on the map, the bureaucrat sadly replied, "That is a long, expensive way from here." Even the officials of the international Olympic committee were discouraging. "For your 1932 ambitions, it now does not look so certain," they told Garland two years before...
...Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her. This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror. Roger ran around the heap, prodding with his spear whenever pigflesh appeared. Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch, and the terrified squealing became a high...