Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, the New Yorker's May 7 primary victory had assured him of at least 53 of the state's 63 convention votes. After Kennedy's death, Indiana party leaders declared that the slate would go uncommitted to Chicago, but in fact Governor Roger Branigin, who ran as a favorite son in the primary against Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, will almost surely throw most of the votes to Humphrey on the first ballot...
...emulate his towering father. After undistinguished years at Eton and Oxford, he followed his father's early example by popping off to the U.S. for a lecture tour. One subject: "Why I Am Not a Socialist." American audiences loved him, but Britons turned him down when he ran for Parliament. In fact, he lost three successive campaigns for a seat until he finally sneaked into Parliament for a brief stay in 1940 after winning an unopposed by-election. "I like Randolph," purred Noel Coward. "He is so unspoiled by his great failure...
...Council ran ads in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the city manager journals asking for applications for the post. They got over 70 replies, and asked 15 of the applicants to come to Cambridge for interviews...
...half mile, setting a University record in the first event and a varsity record in the second. A few weeks later, against Yale, in one of Harvard's greatest athletic feats, Baker took first in the mile in a strategically slow 4:11. Less than an hour later he ran a 1:48.6 half mile, 0.1 seconds behind Shaw and the third best half mile at that time in the country. Then with the meet's outcome hanging in the balance, Baker went out and won the two-mile run, breaking nine minutes. There is a strong possibility that...
...quick, accurate jump shot and looked like a sure-fire all-time Harvard great. In the spring of that sophomore year, Grate won the starting shortstop position on the varsity baseball team and won the Wendell Bat, awarded the team's most effective offensive player. Then he ran into eligibility problems and just managed to get through the 1967 basketball season before he was sidelined. This winter, eligible again, he ran into personal problems and ill health just before the start of basketball practice and didn't break into the lineup until late in the season. Against Brown he pumped...