Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in the sound on March 24 after filling its storage tanks with crude from the trans-Alaska pipeline. More than 10 million gallons of oil poured into the sound...
Several spouses have got into Betty Wright-like trouble. In 1976 Marion Javits, wife of the late Senator Jacob Javits, had to forgo a lucrative contract with Iran Air. In 1984 Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette ran into trouble when Greek businessman Basil Tsakos paid her $55,000 for decorating his apartment, which seemed like a lot for choosing fabric swatches and paint chips, while her husband was simultaneously urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline...
...After a car accident I had when I was 16. That was a big one. Some lady had the sun in her eyes and ran her car into me. The hood ornament rammed into my head. I had days of semiconsciousness, an out-of-body experience. I saw the tunnel, the light, the whole deal...
...know of the military's discriminatory policy. After all, he presided over debate before the council during which several students testified that ROTC expressly excludes gays. Lee insists he didn't notice. Either he's lying, or he was oblivious to the proceedings of the meeting he ran...
...Utah fusion experiment, researchers B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann ran a current through a palladium electrode immersed in heavy water. They announced on March 23 that the deuterium nuclei in the water fused together into helium, releasing energy...