Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last Sunday's Boston Globe, columnist Dan Shaughnessy ran a column featuring fabricated quotes from Bruins owner Harry Sinden about his team's upcoming series against the Devils...
...prepared for the vast numbers of people who turned out to vote that Wednesday. The voting station at which I was deployed expected less than 3,000 voters over both days, yet in fact nearly 5,000 votes were cast that first day alone. At 7:15 p.m. we ran out of ballot papers. Since the polling stations had originally been scheduled to close at 7 p.m., the voters waiting outside refused to believe we had actually run out. It was too much of a coincidence. We must have selfishly hidden the papers so that we could go home. Hence...
Neither team scored in the last three regulation innings, setting the stage for Harvard's tenth-inning heroics. Junior Joe Weidenbach, pinch-hitting for Dennis Doble, led off the inning by reaching second on a two base error. After freshman Terry Hurt pinch ran for him, freshman Mike Hochanadel walked...
Everybody's pretty bright that I ran into, you know, the only thing that's missing is just being out in the world. And that was the thing that came up the most in conversation, was what's it like being outside. The students I ran into wanted to get out. They were tired of being here. The novelty of being at Harvard, it was like all right, yeah, okay, so, next, been there, done that, let's move on. And that surprised me. It was good; there was no pretension about it. Everybody was sort of like well...
...years before, in 1967, he had written an article expressing his doubt about the safety and prudence of mastectomies. The article was eventually printed in Vogue and Women's Day and sparked 8,500 letters asking for more information in the ten weeks after it ran...