Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come out of the American West. Here's how McMurtry started off: "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake . . ." You can't stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want...
Henry Lukas, who ran unsuccessfully in 1989 and 1991, said his experience as a teacher and administrator in the Cambridge school systems had shown him the need for the system to adapt to changing times...
Constantly feeling the air, Bush ran on huge approval ratings, always coming up with the right moves, until he got checkmated by the backwash of a past administration and an economy that wouldn't behave...
...tree-lined neighborhood of neatly kept, working-class houses. "We were just planning on < a big fight, like a rumble, when six cars came cruising down the street and the shooting started," says Jeff, 20, whose quick and warm smile defeats even his best efforts at posturing. He ran inside a house, grabbed his .32-cal. pistol and returned fire. Another friend retrieved a mini MAC-10, a semiautomatic he had hidden in the bushes, while a third pulled out a .22-cal. rifle. "That mini MAC saved us," says Jeff, who blindly blazed away at the cars, which circled...
...DADS sponsored two gun-buyback programs last winter, offering up to $50 for a working weapon, with no questions asked. On both days, they ran out of money within half an hour. Total haul: 588 guns, some turned in by juveniles. "It amazed me," says C.R. Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. In May MAD DADS staged another buyback after sending 100,000 flyers to nine school districts. The take: 1,124 guns, which will be welded into a monument by a local artist. Among them was Doug's 12-gauge shotgun. "I figured...