Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the police, Jones, who had been selling The Daily World, a new Marxist paper, in front of the Harvard Coop, was blocking the sidewalk with his bundle of papers. When he was asked to move them, police say the young man spit at the officer and then ran. Curtis caught Jones, and while struggling with him, Bunting appeared and provoked arrest...
Circular Line. Thus, when Clark Clifford, McNamara's successor as Defense Secretary. went to Capitol Hill to request $227 million as a first installment on Sentinel, he ran into a skeptical Congress. In the Senate, Sentinel was opposed by a potent bipartisan coalition that included such normally defense-minded figures as Stuart Symington, a former Air Force Secretary, and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith. Their arguments: Sentinel is worthless and would merely prompt both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to build more offensive missiles. Eugene McCarthy interrupted his presidential campaign to denounce the ABM system on the Senate...
...year ago, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity financed a $927,341 project to attempt to convert the Rangers from evil to good. The Rev. John Fry, a short, tough, idealistic exMarine, ran the pacification program through his First Presbyterian Church in the Woodlawn district on the South Side. He has been involved in church-related slum programs before, and had considerable success in helping to damp down the Chicago riots of 1966. Fry's gym became a Ranger recreation center, and gang members were given training for productive jobs...
...Pompidou who, more than anyone else, managed to guide France through the greatest peacetime crisis in more than 100 years. While De Gaulle brooded alone in the Elysee, thinking in characteristically bold strokes about how to end the chaos, Pompidou all but ran the government from an emergency command post set up near his office in the Hotel Matignon. When some Ministers started cracking under the strain (one took to packing a pistol under his coat, another wanted to crush the rebellion in the same way that he had put down Algerian terrorism), Pompidou calmly took over their responsibilities. Sleeping...
...Family Dog first used the Filmore and Avalon auditoriums to put on rock shows. They set up free concerts on the Panhandle, a park near the Golden Gate Bridge. And they ran Monday morning clean-ins in Haight-Ashbury: the city gave them 50 brooms, and they would go down the whole street sweeping...