Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burns's first mistake was his unsubstantiated charge that former State Senator Scott Kelly, a rugged upcountry conservative who ran a strong third in the original Democratic primary, had offered to sell his support in the runoff for $500,000. Burns's idea was to discredit Kelly; instead, he got Kelly hopping mad. Attacking the Governor for what he called "the big lie," the bluff country boy took to the backwoods to support Burns's city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race...
...telephone company accepted the news without bitterness, however, merely impounding the 121-page Fine Arts 13 notebook that contained the records of their "researches" and requiring them to submit a full report, which ran to 40 double-spaced pages, of what they had done...
...prosperous neurologist, he studied theology at the University of Berlin in the 1920s and quickly gained a reputation as one of Germany's most promising young Protestant thinkers. After Hitler came to power, Bonhoeffer joined the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," for which he later ran a secret, illegal seminary at Finkenwalde. In 1939, Bonhoeffer, who had once been a pacifist, refused the safety of exile in the U.S. Even though employed as a German intelligence agent, he secretly joined the underground...
...considerable degree, it did. Like many others before him, Maurois reckons up the bill that Balzac's output-97 novels and novellas, scores of stories, articles and plays, 6,000,000 words-owes to the author's experiences. The son of a petit bourgeois whose roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest...
Baker has turned in a 9:08.3 two-mile in the Heptagonals; Allen ran close to that time in both the Yale and Army meets. A fine cross-country runner who has improved his speed greatly this spring, he might even be a contender in the longer race...