Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ran in the family. Dingaan's brother and predecessor, the frightful Chief Tchaka, slaughtered an estimated 1,000,000 fellow blacks in genocidal wars. He liquidated women as useless, mourned his mother's death by killing 7,000 followers, was himself murdered by Dingaan...
With the practiced ease of old troupers, the Perónista majority in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies ran through the routine of ejecting another Radical member last week. For the fourth time in 18 months the pretext was the same: in a speech last month Deputy Atilio E. Cattáneo had been guilty of the "gross misconduct" of criticizing President Juan Domingo...
...cost in making steel, was selling at an average of only $27.25 a ton, compared with $43 a year ago. As for the new pension program-U.S. Steel officials could not, or would not, say what it would cost the company in the first year (guesses by outsiders ran as high as $80 million a year...
...perfunctory "Can I help you?" The truck operated by electricity and had a complete gear panel. On the front of the 18-inch-long vehicle was an elevator such as is used to life and carry heavy crates or cotton bales. The truck, which ran on house current, could only travel in a circle of about four feet...
Handsome Alfonso VIII of Castile was married to a haughty English princess named Eleanor of Aquitaine (sister of Richard the Lionhearted), but he tired of her and ran off to Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned by Eleanor's agents. Alfonso, gnawed by both a guilty conscience and a dark suspicion that he was next on the poisoners' list, went home to Eleanor and atonement. Last week, almost 800 years later, the fruits of Alfonso's atonement were providing Spanish archeologists and medieval...