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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard wrestling team revved up its engines for its final dual meet Saturday at the Malkin Athletic Center, and the Crimson ran over the Bulldogs...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Crush Yale, 28-8 | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

After an extremely promising seventh grade year in which she ran the 400 meters in a little over 60 seconds and made it to the finals in the Junior Nationals, Rainey put her spikes on the back shelf and ventured out into other activities and sports, including basketball and volleyball...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Rainey Is Thinclads' Renaissance Woman | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

...usually-dominating Derek Horner placed fourth in the long jump with a 6.85-meter leap and then ran his best 55-meter dash of the season (6.39) to place second by one hundreth of a second...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: M. Thinclads Place 3rd Behind Princeton, Yale | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

...Congressman, it is beguiling to run for re-election challenged only by a Trotskyite and a vegetarian. In 1988, 65 incumbents ran unopposed. Congressmen so blessed are reluctant to take a stance that might complicate re-election. "The risk they are averting is not the loss of their seat," explains Republican Congressman Dick Armey of Texas, "but that they have to go home and face a rigorous challenge." A House Democratic leader says colleagues sometimes complain, "If I cast that vote, I've bought myself an opponent next time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government by the Timid | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...regarded the ouster of an artist by a board of directors as a kind of theft, stipulated when A.C.T. came to San Francisco that the local board must serve only as fund raisers, with scant say over what plays he chose, what actors he cast, or how he ran things. By the late 1970s, predictably, board members demanded more power. Ball refused, and ultimately they quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Trying To Get Its A.C.T. Together | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

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