Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrewdest of the anti-Castro exiles now actively trying to overthrow Cuba's Maximum Leader. A sturdy 200-pounder, Cuesta had made ten previous trips to Cuba, taking in men and equipment and bringing out agents for debriefing. Last week, on his eleventh trip, Cuesta's luck ran out. No sooner had the raft put ashore than it was spotted by an antiaircraft battery. Two of the men were killed; the other two made it back to the main boat, but were apparently drowned when the boat was sunk minutes later...
...only an on-board computer and a handheld sextant. Next, to simulate an emergency rendezvous during the actual Apollo moon flight, they moved Gemini eight miles above and 86 miles ahead of the ATDA, then attempted to close in again with the aid of ground controllers. This time they ran into trouble-losing sight of the ATDA against the confusing background of the earth below, consuming eleven hours and 30 extra pounds of fuel before accomplishing a rendezvous, and exhausting themselves in the process...
High kept his electioneering relatively elevated. He deplored the state's anemic educational system, raised statehouse cronyism and water pollution as key issues. He insisted that "the race issue won't work again. Florida has had excellent racial relations." He was right. Although he ran second to Burns in the May 3 primary, High this time won enough votes from Kelly supporters and disenchanted Negroes to come...
...developed hardly any friendships with people her own age, hardly any ability to deal with the world as an independent individual. She lived almost entirely in fantasies of evasion, and these fantasies were the sole subject of her stories. The House Without Windows, for example, describes a child who "ran away from loneliness and lived wild in the great meadow." While she was working on the book, Barbara wrote to a friend: "I want that green, fairylike, woodsy, animal-filled, watery, luxuriant, butterfly-painted, moth-dotted, dragonfly-blotched, bird-filled, salamandrous, mossy, ferny, sunshiny, moonshiny, long-dayful, short-nightful land...
...last night a student ran into the main reading area on the fifth floor of Lamont and screamed: "My exams are over." He then turned round and left the building quietly...