Word: ran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that time, Cambridge was governed by 13 councillors, which like many contemporary Eastern city governments kept power and ran their cities by a system of patronage, offering jobs and benefits to supporters. Under the Littauer Center's proposed Plan E, the number of councillors would be cut to nine, and a city manager would be named by the council to handle administrative duties--including employee hiring and benefit dispensation...
Last week Danny Reed took Igor Morozov, 23, to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. They found the name of Reed's friend Ivan Smith, killed in 1965. Morozov tenderly ran his fingers over the engraved name and left a carnation there. The two veterans embraced, then walked away...
...start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, the P.L.A. initially stood aloof. As the Red Guards ran amuck, Mao Zedong urged the military to challenge them -- but with rhetoric, not guns and bayonets. Some officers rebelled against what they felt was the ambiguity of their position. In Wuhan district, the military commander, General Chen Zaidao, was ordered to support the local Red Guard faction. He refused and seized as hostages three party officials who were sent to confront him. Premier Zhou Enlai had to negotiate their release...
...advisers, Gorbachev was "radicalized" by the experience of trying to improve the system. The result, two months ago, was a genuine choice for voters in the election to the new Congress of People's Deputies. Numerous standard-bearers of the old order were defeated, including some who ran unopposed (they gathered too few votes to qualify for election). A prominent Soviet historian, Leonid Batkin, asserts that "the Communist Party lost as an institution. Communists won not because they were Communists but despite being Communists." The insurgents suffered a setback in last week's election of a new parliament, or Supreme...
...coronation, Baker downplays the pageantry in favor of offstage vignettes, like long lines of colonial potentates in animal skins and gold braid forming to use Westminster Abbey's toilets. The Eisenhower White House produces little excitement, partly because there wasn't much, but mainly because Press Secretary James Hagerty ran a "tight, tight ship." Later there was the smothering style of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "For you, Russ, I'd leak like a sieve...