Word: ran
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...Restic] enjoyed Giardi as a player and a person, and he ran the Multi-Flex just like he has wanted," the sophomore defender said. "There is in my mind no coincidence about the two departures...
...author has resurrected a historical figure, John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and founder of a spa for health faddists that he ran at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907 and 1908. As Boyle caricatures him, Kellogg was half charlatan and half believing zealot, an early whooper-up of overnourished America's chronic food fear. Rigid vegetarianism, fasting, sexual abstinence and abdominal massage were among his nostrums. But his favorite was "colonic irrigation" -- enemas administered as often as five times...
...nappers, after moving the Fu dog near a back door of the house, sent house residents scurrying across the campus on a wild-goose chase, Liu said. "First we ran to Dunster, then they said Mather...
...groped, stripped, bitten on the buttocks or made to drink from the phallus of a fake rhinoceros during the three-day, semiofficial bacchanal. Navy and Marine aviators lured women down a gauntlet of drunken officers who molested them; some walked through the Las Vegas Hilton exposing their testicles or ran naked around the pool. The report is full of lurid new details about the scandal, but it may not be the whole story. Investigators believe "several hundred" of the naval officers interviewed concealed information and 51 others lied outright. Pentagon Deputy Inspector General Derek Vander Schaaf has sent files...
Vasiljevic had little trouble meeting the interest payments at first. Western experts say his bank ran a classic Ponzi scheme, using new deposits to pay the interest on old ones. At the same time, diplomats say, Vasiljevic used his customers' hard currency to buy sanctioned goods like oil on the black market and sell it for a handsome profit. Vasiljevic denies all the charges. "The wonderful thing about sanctions is that they create real profit opportunities," says a State Department official. "When you have these rates of inflation, anytime you can use someone else's money for a short time...