Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried every one of Omaha's 14 wards. He ran ahead in 88 of the state's 93 counties. Even in Lancaster County, home of the University of Nebraska and a putative McCarthy bastion, Kennedy lost by only two votes. McCarthy had entered a full slate of committed delegate candidates, while Kennedy was unable to match him, having entered the race after the filing deadline. Kennedy was therefore forced to line up uncommitted candidates and conduct an advertising campaign to identify them to the electorate. Picking and choosing among 75 unfamiliar names, the voters gave him at least...
...same strain of anti-authoritarianism ran through the writing of Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, eventually leading to a fresh, secular cult among the Romantics, notably in Rousseau, whose "natural man" was supposed to be superior to artificial government. One of the cries of the French Revolution, along with "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!", was "Anarchy!" A man who regarded himself as "the most complete expression of the Revolution," a self-educated French printer named Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, became anarchism's most articulate spokesman. With the Revolution ringing in his ears, and using Rousseau's "natural society" for his lamplight, Proudhon...
Others honored were Steve Schoonover, taking his second consecutive Harwood Pole Vault Award, new captain Dick Benka, with his second straight Little Shot Put Award, and the two-mile relay team of Baker, Trey Burns, Roy Shaw, and Dave McKelvey which ran in the indoor NCAA...
...student started telling something about how the man had started the Bauhaus School in Germany and that was what everyone was studying now. When he looked up towards the speakers' platform, the kid grabbed a "Grope" button and ran...
...luck ran out on the Dancer turning into the stretch when Sir Beau, a 28-to-1 shot, cut in front of him and forced him to bump Martin's Jig and Nodouble before finishing third. Sir Beau was equally at fault in the accident but was out of the money in any case; Dancer was placed eighth, behind Martin...