Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another dubious character in the drama just when disclosures about zealous fund raiser John Huang's activities seemed to be taking a holiday break. Trie, 48, has played a small but supporting role in Clinton's life for more than a decade. The two men met when Trie ran a Chinese restaurant located near the Capitol in Little Rock named Fu Lin (in Chinese, it can mean "enrich your neighbor"). Clinton became a regular at Fu Lin, which hosted an unusually generous luncheon buffet. A friendship sprouted, and Clinton named Trie to the Arkansas State fire extinguisher board...
...some of the Dunblane children, including the siblings of four of the victims, recorded the song, which sold 189,000 copies within a week and entered the British pop singles' chart at No. 1. "Lord, these guns have caused too much pain/ This town will never be the same," ran the new words. "So for the bairns [children] of Dunblane/ We ask, please never again." Profits will go to three children's charities...
...intercessor percolated for several centuries in the Eastern church before exploding in the medieval West. There, fueled as much by folk devotion as by church leaders, her cult eventually can be said to have run wild ("Mary so loved the world...that she gave her only begotten son," ran one prayer), providing fuel for the Protestant reformers' charges of "Mariolatry...
...turned out, Strug's vault wasn't needed to guarantee the U.S. women the gold medal in team gymnastics. But she didn't know that at the time. Said U.S. coach Mary Lee Tracy: "What we saw was a kid who was shaking her leg but who saluted and ran down the runway." Into our hearts...
...accident was an error that happened only as a result of the negligence of the Air Force brass in notifying the guys on the line of the potential ease of cross-connecting the F-15's flight-control rods. It is the family's impression that the officers who ran the shop either did not inform the mechanics of the problem or at the very least did not verify that their work was done correctly. The higher-ups wanted a scapegoat, and naturally the "little guy" was the easiest prey. Mueller's suicide only adds to the profound sorrow...