Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strain suffered in the Big Three meet Friday at Princeton prevented Hewlett, already off-form, from practicing early this week. He ran on Wednesday and will run in the meet unless he feels badly...
Furthermore, there is nothing to suggest that Lindsay will have an easy time being reelected Mayor. He has been fond of citing Fiorello La Guardia as his spiritual predecessor; it is only prudent to note that La Guardia tended to receive smaller majorities each time he ran, and he had larger majorities than Lindsay to begin with. (John Purrey Mitchell, an earlier reform mayor, failed to win reelection entirely.) Whatever the success of his programs, the new Mayor will certainly receive plenty of adulation from the Herald Tribune, Times, Time, etc., but New York in 1969 will still...
...camp's longhouses. The 2,300-odd montagnard women and children living at Plei Me disappeared underground for a week-long hibernation. All, that is, but the older boys-twelve years and more-who grabbed carbines nearly as tall as themselves, strapped grenades to their frail waists, and ran to the rifle pits...
...attackers' endurance. "Old Charlie just stands up in his hole and shoots back at the whole Air Force," said one man. An American officer saw a single Red soldier charge a squad of montagnards-"yards" in G.I. parlance-brandishing grenades and screaming fiercely. The yards broke and ran, while the U.S. officer dropped to one knee, adjusted his sights, and in six rounds felled the sprinting Viet Minh attacker. "Damn," he said later. "Give me 200 men that well disciplined, and I'll capture this whole country...
Thomas S. Eisenstadt. Joseph Lee Jr., and William E. O'Connor, three incumbents who have agreed with Mrs. Hicks on most racial issues, ran behind her in the early balloting but ahead of the five-man Citizens for Boston Schools slat-supported by civil rights leaders...