Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happened all of a sudden in predawn darkness. My house was almost destroyed. It was a nightmare. Like a thunderbolt, violent movement ran through our street. After this tragic moment, deep silence came back in the darkness, and then I heard a voice crying for help. It was a horrible dream. After dawn, people in the street composed themselves and began to rescue those trapped under the crushed houses without considering their own lost property. My son started digging through the rubble with bare hands to help rescue a friend under a crushed apartment building. We accepted the reality...
Charges are also growing that CR regularly crosses the line between impartial objectivity and committed advocacy. In one sense, this complaint is nothing new. In its very first issue, May 1936, the magazine ran a story on the dangers of lead in children's toys. In the 1950s, CR warned-correctly-that radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in the atmosphere was contaminating milk products; in the '60s and '70s it repeatedly urged auto manufacturers to install seat belts...
...next morning, the quiet ended. Several cars pulled up to Su Casa, and 10 men in plain clothes, three or four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands...
...Chinese, who ran a nearly $30 billion surplus in commerce with the U.S. last year, would seem to have at least as big a stake in limiting the damage. They could win a tariff reprieve simply by closing down some of the factories in southern China that are flooding Asian markets with pirated videos and music...
...points in the day, I was scared. Likewhen the cattle truck almost ran over 35 littlegirls in black jumpsuits. Like when I was so closeto the deity's Saab, an assassin could have missedher and hit me instead. Like when the reporterfrom the Associated Press growled at me for askingMs. Pfeiffer about her social responsibilities.But, she tells me, it's okay to be scared. Somethings are just meant to be entertaining, like thesurreal circus that descended onto Harvard Squareto give Michelle Pfeiffer a shiny brass...