Word: rans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Rovegliano." Little Doll first met Big Pasquale when, as a buxom peasant girl of 19, she won a beauty contest and became "Miss Rovegliano." They got along fine together until Big Pasquale ran afoul of an old friend, tough-talking Tony Esposito. There had been bad blood between the two men ever since Big Pasquale did time for hitting a man with a monkey wrench. When he got out of jail, he found that Tony had taken over the business...
...home, it was Wright's marital escapades that made the biggest headlines. After 19 years of marriage and six children, he ran off with a pretty married neighbor, Mrs. Mamah Borthwick Cheney, built the first Taliesin for her on the ancestral Lloyd-Jones acres outside Spring Green, Wis. The liaison ended in tragedy when a mad Barbados servant burned down the house, murdered Mamah and her two children. Wright's second marriage, to monocled Sculptress Miriam Noel, wore thin in three years. Soon Wright was in the tabloid headlines again, jailed for crossing state borders with a handsome...
...difficulty was that this moral and economic desire to Americanize the world often ran against the wishes of the people concerned and against the principle of self-determination with which the United States had long identified itself. With the post-war rise of anti-colonial nationalism in Asia and Africa, Williams argues, the policy of American economic expansion has proved more and more useless...
Mullin has been outstanding all year for the Freshmen, first as captain of the cross-country squad, and then as the work-horse of the indoor team. Particularly memorable was the Yale meet last February, when he and teammate Bob Knapp each ran three and one-half miles, with Mullin winning the mile and two-mile, and Knapp contributing a come-from-behind anchor leg in the two-mile relay...
Churchill intercepted a lateral and ran twenty yards for his second. Then Frembgen bulled through the center for fifteen, and Cullen climaxed a long forward run in which nearly every player carried the ball...