Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asserted herself almost immediately after Dan Quayle was nominated, telling reporters that when her husband first ran for Congress in Indiana, "I made all the decisions." The cool, appraising look she cast on Quayle when he spoke, and the sharp tugs on his sleeve when she wanted him to stop, gave her away as first among her husband's handlers. Bush aides quickly learned that behind her demure shirtwaist dresses and her trademark Mary Tyler Moore flip hairdo there was a strong-minded, intelligent woman who wished to be viewed as Quayle's "senior adviser...
...model student, Marilyn was "always real popular," according to classmate Kathy Hyde Parker, "but never with the bad kids." Her self-styled feminism was awakened early: she wanted to play basketball in high school but balked at the half-court games girls then had to play. At Purdue she ran for freshman-class treasurer and formed the Pep Girls, a pom-pom cheerleader squad that she directed with no nonsense. "At our meetings we didn't horse around," says former Pep Girl Barbara Little...
...Ivana's ideas of decoration were a little odd, like sending to London for fur hats to bring a touch of Buckingham Palace to the doormen at Trump Tower. But she worked hard, and the Donald, as she sometimes calls him, kept giving her new responsibilities. When she ran his Atlantic City casinos, she was the boss of 4,000 people. "I run my operations like a family business," she says. "I sign every check, every receipt. I'm not tough, but I'm strong. You can't be a pussycat." This was, in a way, a necessity. "If Donald...
...troops drew near, many patients bolted into the forest. "It was unbelievable," recalls Kouchner, who is now France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action. "Some of them were | carrying their own plasma bags. Others had been operated on, and their intestines were hanging out as they ran." Outraged, Kouchner and Recamier decided to organize their own pool of doctors who would put medical needs above bureaucratic procedures. Soon after, the two doctors helped form Medecins sans Frontieres...
...campaign. READ MY LICKS, headlined the Los Angeles Times in a story about the menu for an Inaugural reception this month. Christian Science Monitor reviewer John Beaufort could not resist pointing out the "thousand points of incandescent light" in the lavish Broadway musical Legs Diamond. Last week USA Today ran a story about the pre-Inaugural cleanup of Washington. The headline: A THOUSAND POINTS OF GLEAM...