Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could see their President several times a day as he walked across Pennsylvania Avenue from Blair House to the White House. He also continued his prebreakfast constitutionals. Many an early riser in Washington was pleased and astonished to see the President smiling or waving at him. A motorist almost ran him down; Harry Truman skipped lightly...
When shooting broke out the night of his arrest, Chiang leaped from a rear window in his underwear. He scaled a ten-foot wall, stumbled into a deep moat and wrenched his back but climbed out and ran until he fell again, tripped by brambles in the darkness. He lost his false teeth. When overtaken, he once more insisted on being shot or sent back to Nanking...
...intruder ran into the empty room of Joan Film '51 and Mary March '51 and jumped out of the second story window...
Harvard Observatory has seen the third robbery in its vicinity within a fortnight. On Sunday night Albion Sawyer '52 ran into a holdup there that has not yet been reported to the Cambridge police...
...second quarter, 7-6, Harvard's mannerly rooters sat subdued until the final period. Then their team, which had been either very good or very bad all season, got its dander up. Two Harvard touchdowns made the score 20-7. Just before the gun, a wave of substitutes ran in (a Harvard man does not get his letter unless he plays against Yale-and one play is enough). As the tide turned toward Harvard, some of the students went native, shot up crimson flares that looped across to the Yale rooting section, completed their afternoon's work...