Word: ran
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...found his wife, whom he met when he was providing legal assistance to a children’s group home that she ran...
...asked me if I would have ran for mayor I would have said, and did tell people, ‘No,’” Purcell says, leaning on the table as he had done earlier while discussing the beginning of his interest in child welfare...
...Purcell was elected Nashville’s mayor—a job he says was “very satisfying.” When he ran for a second term in 2003, voters overwhelmingly showed their support for their northern mayor—he was reelected with nearly 85 percent of the vote...
...While Purcell worked to increase school funding, improve the Nashville economy, and provide more affordable housing during his two terms as mayor, his friends joked that he ran for less noble reasons...
...place of a red beating heart. She knew that she had passed a spiritual test, but she also knew that she was not completely unshaken. Even with the righteousness of the Lord coursing through her blood, with all her health and strength, her legs still quivered slightly as she ran. Slowly, as though led by a will stronger than her own, Roxanna found herself drawn away from the Florentine villa into the trees and toward the river. It was late afternoon, and the summer air had begun to turn to the evening’s coolness. The sun?...