Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote victory last week, Reagan emphasized "how foolish it is to be separated by labels, how much we really have in common." Reagan may also have been somewhat sobered by the fact that his moderate running mate for Lieutenant Governor, Robert Finch, Nixon's 1960 campaign manager, ran nearly 100,000 votes ahead of him and that the Democrats won control of both houses of the state legislature?though by reduced majorities...
...contrast, the Democrats ran notably dull campaigns in New York, Illinois, Michigan and California, committed a few grievous gaffes along the way. None was worse than a scene in the 30-minute campaign film in which Pat Brown was shown telling a little Negro girl: "I'm running against an actor ?and remember this: You know who shot Abraham Lincoln...
...passes for 127 yds.; and three of those tosses-one for a touchdown-went to Seymour, who had obviously recovered from the sprained ankle he suffered two weeks before against Oklahoma. Muscling up for this week's collision with No. 2ranked Michigan State, the No. 1-ranked Irish ran their season's record to 8-0 by demolishing Duke 64-0-the biggest victory margin of any Notre Dame team in 22 years...
...stories about sopranos whose contracts provide for dressing-room lovers -a stagehand, perhaps, or a house fireman who donates his services for art's sake. Soprano Gemma Bellincioni made no secret of the fact that she made love in her dressing room right before a performance. If she ran overtime-and she often did-her understanding Italian audiences waited patiently. One shapely U.S. lyric soprano was notorious in the 1940s for sabotaging her leading man by seducing him shortly before going onstage; audiences loved her, hated...
Scheer predicted Brown would lose because "he decided California voters were racists and maniacs and ran his campaign that way." In doing so, Brown sacrificed the support of the radicals and the middle-class liberals of the California Democratic Council. "We were his workers, you know, and he never thought he could lose us, no matter what he did. He was convinced we wouldn't vote for Reagan, and so he moved further and further right...