Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stevenson, who was the big gun in the Trinity victory, was blanketed by his 6 ft. 6 in. defense man and only scored one point. The rest of the team also ran into a tight wall and were battered under the boards...
Just plain spectators ran into a barrel of minor complications. Some groups, with visions of perpetual motion machines and gadgets, devoted their energies to tracking down the Mechanical Room, only to come finally on a sort of boiler room packed with air-conditioning machinery...
...momentarily hamstrung by a shortage of the special glass needed for cathode tubes. British TV carries no advertisements and is dependent for revenue on government subsidies and an annual tax of ?2 on each set owner. Among the programs scheduled are Ascot races, plays such as King Lear (which ran over three hours and was given in two sections on consecutive evenings), symphonies, soccer football games and movies. In British pubs, Britons still prefer darts...
...years, he ran Eton smoothly, and got its depression-ridden finances back into shape. Last week the Emperor announced that he would retire at the end of the summer term. To take Claude Elliott's place, the Provost and Fellows of Eton appointed a headmaster of a different kidney...
Portinari (TIME, July 28, 1947) had long been Brazil's No. 1 painter, and so recognized abroad; he is also an energetic Communist. Before Communism was outlawed in Brazil, Portinari once ran for Senator, almost made it with 300,000 votes. Nowadays Portinari lives with his wife and son in a comfortable house on the hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, but he has never allowed himself to forget or to lose touch with the back-country poverty he grew up in (he was one of twelve children in an immigrant Italian family of coffee workers...