Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only last Friday, The Boston Globe ran a story describing Dorchester as "the city's worst" high school. Amid poor testing scores and a 50 percent drop-out rate, Dorchester High School's accreditation is at risk...
Only last Friday, The Boston Globe ran a storydescribing Dorchester as "the city's worst" highschool. Amid poor testing scores and a 50 percentdrop-out rate, Dorchester High School'saccreditation is at risk...
...supercurtly factual" permeated the magazine. "There Are 00 Trees in Russia," ran the title of a famous 1964 piece in Harper's magazine on TIME's obsessive fact-gathering and -checking systems, implying that the magazine had a sinister itch to make reality conform, through the use of plug-in facts, to the editors' preconceptions. Fair enough on occasion, but a little captious overall, in light of the magazine's scrupulous and expensive attention to accuracy...
...fateful Sunday morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese. A few minutes later he was heard to intone: "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition; I just got one of the sons of bitches...
...last images of the war: U.S. Marines with rifle butts pounding the fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air--some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries, another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships to make...