Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next hour, firemen poured water on the tractor and Billy from relays of tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...
...last a bulldozer appeared, rescuers ran cables to the cab, and the dozer dragged it clear of the flames. In a Martinez hospital last week, Billy Cox grinned weakly and without his usual cockiness. Said Billy: "I lay there and all I could think was, 'What...
...Chicago's Bankers Mile, Don Gehrmann, of Wisconsin, who had spent most of the week in the infirmary with a cold, broke ahead of a field of four, ran...
...night before his death in 1799, George Washington sent one of his slaves from Mount Vernon to fetch the latest copy of his favorite daily newspaper-the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...
...France a couple of years ago, caused the devil of a row. Like the celebrated autobiographical novel on which it was based,* it was rough on French national dignity (the municipal council of Bordeaux denounced it as "shocking, painful and scabrous") but enthusiastically received by the public (it ran to packed houses for more than a year...