Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate, TIME caught on, and it became part of the American and world scene, its presence reaffirmed in humor, fiction and legend. Its early style with its inverted prose and piled-up adjectives was endlessly spoofed, notably in a parody by Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind...
Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on every thing they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving out side the walls of the embattled embassy...
This shift mirrors a vast change in American and international perceptions. In the palmy days of the 1920s, the economy seemed to be a machine that ran automatically. It might develop rattles and knocks during wars and speculative panics, but most experts believed it should be left to follow its own self-correcting laws-i.e., be ignored. That comfortable belief has been destroyed by three generations of dizzying swings from boom to shattering global depression to unexampled post-World War II prosperity to the "stagflation" of the 1970s. The monthly trends in the consumer price index and the unemployment...
...Through the stinging mist of CS pepper gas dropped by Viet Nam-style helicopters, yellow-clad troopers set off a barrage of rifle fire from atop 30-ft. prison walls. More than 500 officers-armed with shotguns, rifles, pistols and clubs-charged into the crowded compound, shooting as they ran. Sporadic firing continued for nearly an hour. When the one-sided battle was over, lawmen representing the State of New York had killed 26 convicts and nine of 38 hostages that the inmates had seized in the four-day prison riot. At least 83 prisoners were hurt seriously...
...celebrate Militia Day, and millions of Soviet viewers were awaiting the live pop concert that was supposed to follow. Instead, without explanation, a film about Lenin was broadcast. Then, at 9, came Vremya (Time), the nightly news. The announcers, who usually dress informally, wore dark jackets or dresses. "I ran to my neighbors to find out if they knew what was going on," a Moscow secretary said. "Everyone was excited. We all thought somebody had died, but nobody guessed it was Brezhnev...