Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat the living hell out of me with his belt. That's the worst beating I ever got." It was not the last. And there were plenty of near misses. Denny still remembers nervously the day when he was only twelve and "borrowed" one of the family cars. It ran out of gas, and he pushed it all the way home. He barely got it back in the garage before his father walked into the house. "If he had caught me," says McLain with a reminiscent shudder, "I wouldn't be alive today...
...Communist social realism. We drank tea and listened to Tallin playing a lute (made with his own hands) and singing old Russian ballads learned from blind minstrels, with whom he traveled from village to village begging alms when he was a young boy. I was told that he ran away from home at the age of nine and lived free as the wind ever after...
Over the years he has maintained a stubborn political independence. In Washington, he immediately ran afoul of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who asked the freshman to join him in a fight against Senate liberals who were seeking to make it easier to break filibusters. Muskie refused, and Johnson retaliated by denying him his first three choices for committee assignments. "They tell me that Lyndon trades apples for orchards every day," Muskie said ruefully. Johnson later came to appreciate Muskie as a thorough craftsman who approached his work with quiet diplomacy. In 1964, Johnson even seriously considered naming Muskie...
...forced Mein's car to the curb. A red Buick darted up to block the embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine gun. He stepped out, then broke and ran. There was a shout: "Kill him! Kill him!" The submachine gunner squeezed off a burst at Mein's back. The ambassador fell in the middle of the street and died within moments...
...biggest shocker was provided by the San Diego Chargers, who ran right over the Los Angeles Rams, co-favorites with the Packers for this year's N.F.L. crown, to avenge last year's 50-7 thumping. While the Charger offensive line took care of the Rams' vaunted pass rush, Quarterback John Hadl riddled the Los Angelenos' defense for 14 completions and 302 yds., including a 68-yd. touchdown toss to his brilliant flanker, Lance Alworth. Final score: San Diego 35, Los Angeles...