Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wide & Woolly Sir: Last year you ran an item on the American Museum of Natural History's experiment in forecasting the severity of winter by noting the number of rings a caterpillar had. The Forecast was for a mild winter...
None of this meant that Sherman would have an easy-or even successful-career as head of the Navy. Resentments against him ran deep in his own service, deeper perhaps than against any other officer erf the Navy. But if he became the choice of the Commander in Chief, it would be up to the Navy to accept the decision...
...campaign, by admitting that he was sweet on a handsome brunette style consultant named Sloan Simpson. When asked if they were to be married, he beamed and whistled the opening bars of Some Enchanted Evening. The results were spectacular. The newspapers bloomed with pictures of the smiling couple, and ran columns of saccharine speculation on the great romance...
...long ago Tokyo's Shimbun ran a brief review of The Case of General Yamashita (The University of Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...
Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...