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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against the Lions, it was business as usual for the Crimson. Harvard scored early. Quarterback Tom Yohe scrambled, threw touchdowns and broke records. Tony Hinz, with the help of his associates on the offensive line, ran like he was at the Yale Bowl again...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Gridders Add to Lions' Agony, 41-7 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Carter ran in the primaries much as Dukakis did in 1988. Carter set out to avoid any specific plans, hoping that by displeasing no one, he would please everyone...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: How Not to Attract Black Voters | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

LAST year a TV station in Washington D.C. ran a special report on their news show entitled "Is God Mad At Us?" The series took a look at why there seemed to be so many bad things happening in recent years--droughts, plane crashes, earthquakes. It wasn't a landmark piece of investigative journalism, no exclusive interview with the Big Guy. Instead, it consisted of asking theologians, clergy and disaster victims whether the Second Coming was about to take place. I don't know what the conclusions were...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Is The World Courting Disaster? | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...room and threatened, briefly, to have them both expelled. "It was the mid-1960s," Roth notes, "before I got round to exploiting this painful, ludicrous episode for a scene in my novel When She Was Good." But it was while teaching at the University of Chicago that Roth ran into the elemental force that would permanently shape him as a man and a writer. Her name was Margaret Martinson, although she is called Josie here, and the disaster of their stormy love affair was capped by the calamity of their marriage. She later confessed, Roth claims, to having hoodwinked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Surprising Mid-Life Striptease | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...aircraft. The Iraqi warplanes started dropping bombs on Butia, the village in northern Iraq where she lived. "I felt something wrong in my eyes, and I started to vomit," she says. "We knew what it must be, so we all drank a lot of milk and then we ran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Rights: The Cries of the Kurds | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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