Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said, motioning for another man to come out from the back. Two white gauze pads, daubed with wet blood, dangled fron his skull and neck. "See," he said. "They want to kill us." Just then, the crowd surged toward the precinct house. One of the police ran out to the gateway wildly swinging a machete. This infuriated the mob, who responded with barrage after barrage of stones. Inside the post the pounding of rocks on the corrugated zinc roof and hollow cinder-block walls was deafening. The police nervously grabbed their rifles and went to the windows...
...dead or dying, the staple of such appearances, a litany of Administration accomplishments, was largely truncated. There was a bit of boasting ("We've done more in 20 months than anybody has in a month of Sundays"), but Clinton's overall tone was plaintive. "One of the things I ran for President about," he said, setting a rather minimalist goal for an activist leader, "was just to get us to face our problems again . . . and go to work on them instead of just talking about them all the time...
...when the rules were still being written. Stars did commercials for products they never used; Edward R. Murrow pretended to "drop in" on celebrities in Person to Person. Manipulating quiz shows to affect the outcome was hardly new -- or surprising. Two years before Van Doren admitted his sins, Time ran a story that began, "Are the quiz shows rigged?" and went on to detail ways producers stacked the deck in favor of certain players, like posing questions in a contestant's strongest area of knowledge. Fooling the public is a venerable show-biz tradition; the quiz-show producers found...
Both are all but guaranteed a return to the council. Fine in North and Hanselman in Currier ran in non-competitive elections...
...accident that Martin became addicted to the sport. Her father ran cross country and the half mile in high school, yet in college opted to spend more time with academics. Nevertheless, his passion for the sport remains to this day, as he has coached the Newton North High School track team for the past 25 years...