Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson continued its assault on Lady Luck. Chris Myers recovered the on side kickoff with 1.34 left, and Allard marched Harvard to the Army 25. With 56 seconds on the clock, Allard dropped back to pass and saw daylight, lots of it, in front of him. So he ran...
...plays later a desperation pass to tight end Ed Farrell missed, and time, like Harvard's luck, ran...
...They had two systems for the economy ? 'line authority' and 'bloc authority.' " Line authority ran from the central-government ministries down to the smallest factories and mines in China, north or south. "We found one factory with 4,000 workers but only one toilet. The workers would line up for hours to get to the toilet. But any building of more than 200 sq. ft. had to be approved by line authority at the top, the State Planning Commission in Peking. Should such a committee have to decide about toilets? We had a factory in Hebei that produced good...
...countryside means almost anywhere, for 80% of China's people still work in the fields. Start with Sichuan, my home base for six years. The province is so fertile that the old phrase ran, "Anything that grows in China, grows better in Sichuan...
...Here Hu's anger burst. "If you were to write a biography of Mao, she would be the tragedy of his life." Then, an anecdote about Jiang Qing escorting Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines, on a visit to Tianjin. The state cavalcade roared through the peasants, ran one down and killed him. Stop, said Imelda. No, said Jiang Qing, drive on! The cavalcade drove...