Word: rans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Popular Demand. In Rochester, William B. Ransco ran an ad in the Times Union: "Notice is hereby given that my dear wife has still another driver's permit. Please exercise extreme caution...
...boiling, the men set to work dismembering the body. In the feast that followed, the four managed to devour all of the deceased save the head and one leg, which they put aside for the next meal. It proved a mistake. A young boy found the head, ran horrified to tell his parents, and the police were called. Uganda, whites and blacks alike, was shocked: the ceremonial eating of a bit of human flesh is still not uncommon in Uganda, but wholesale cannibalism as such is unheard...
Over the years the CBC has weathered intermittent squalls over charges of political influence and manfully faced up to the annual budgetary ordeal on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Lately the network's luck ran out, and woes came thick and fast...
Njoroge's quest for his M.D. would make the arduous road of the average U.S. medical student look like roses all the way. Son of a Kikuyu Christian who ran a small general store, Njoroge wanted to go to a U.S. college. But Kenya bureaucrats refused him necessary papers, hoping to keep him within the empire for ideological safety. So Njoroge made it the long way around, via Pretoria (B.S. at the University of South Africa) and London, peddling cosmetics and doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study...
...expected enrollment for the English course was 75 persons but it ran up to 180. Last year Tate's English class had the second highest enrollment in summer school...