Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost exactly 30 years ago this week, TIME ran a cover story, "The Gun in America," with a memorable image by the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that defined the whole notion of in-your-face. That story appeared at a moment when the conduct of national affairs had collapsed into something armed and dangerous. It was 1968, just days after the murder of Robert Kennedy, and before him of Martin Luther King Jr., when the exit wound was becoming a standard problem in American politics. Though the bloodshed of those years emerged out of many causes, one of them...
Abner Stoltzfus began taking on work as a roofer in his late teens, often traveling outside his home in Lancaster County, Penn., to rustle up some spare cash. Before long he ran into a member of the Pagans motorcycle gang who offered him some cocaine on the job. Soon Stoltzfus was hooked, money was running low, and he began pushing drugs to feed his habit. "I don't think there was much analysis behind his actions," his lawyer, John Pyfer Jr., told TIME. "I think it just happened, the way it could happen to your child or mine...
...only at the last minute that Chinese officials announced that they would go along with the U.S. request to broadcast the session live--a significant concession to Clinton. The press conference ran 70 minutes, far longer than its allotted 30 minutes, leading the government-TV anchor to note dryly that "it seems communication needs time." After decades of tensions, China and America still seem to need all the time they...
...Fountainbleu Hotel. One night a young lady was standing on my balcony. These are her exact words: 'I paid the bellhop to let me in. If I don't meet Frank Sinatra tonight, I'm going to jump.' I said, 'Honey, just give me a chance.' I ran over to his suite. Joe DiMaggio and somebody else were playing cards. At the time, Frank was going with Juliet Prowse, and they were already in bed. So I said to Joe and the other guy, 'I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but there's a broad who's going...
...Probably ran out of gas," I offered, alluding to a previous incident when our friends had had to push their six miles uphill to a gas station-- only to find that they had no money...