Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Democrats sportively proposed the presidential "dream ticket" of McCarthy and Wallace. "Liberals will think it's Gene and Harry," ran the quip. "Conservatives will imagine it's Joe and George...
...forces suddenly swept around behind the Nazis and encircled almost 300,000 of them in a giant nutcracker. As the cruel Russian winter began in earnest, temperatures fell to 49° below zero. Frozen German corpses piled up like logs, many still clad in light uniforms. German rations ran out, and proud troops began to eat the flesh of horses, cats and rats. Hermann Goring's airlift brought only a fraction of the promised relief. The city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that...
SING IT, RUDY, BUT CUT THE JOKES ran the headline over a column in the Phoenix Gazette, which went on to suggest that antique Entertainer Rudy Vallee, 66, could improve his nightclub appearances measurably by canning the comedy. The reproof brought a straight-faced letter of rebuttal from Rudy, who insisted that his singing now makes audiences rebel, and that he is making his living primarily as a gagster. One recent singing LP sold only 10,000 copies, Vallee reported, while his comedy album has sold 400,000. As for nightclub fans: "When I began to sing, they invariably began...
...last week, Cazzie Russell was still trying to live up to his promise with the Knicks. And the Pistons' Dave Bing? Last year, in his first season, he averaged 20 points per game for a spiritless, last-place club and ran away with Rookie-of-the-Year honors. This year he leads the entire N.B.A. with 1,371 points in 50 games for a 27.4 average. Almost singlehanded he has pushed the Pistons into third place in the Eastern Division behind the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics...
...depression atop LM's descent stage, the engine separated the ascent stage-consisting of the ascent engine and the two-man LM cockpit-and pulled it away from the descent stage. In one final burn, controllers fired the ascent engine for 6½ minutes before its fuel supply ran out. Because LM will never operate in the earth's atmosphere and therefore has no heat shield, no recovery attempt was made. The ascent stage, slowed by the final engine burn, plunged into the atmosphere and was incinerated...