Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enthusiasm ran high among the 143 starters. Some arrived early to see the and of the Freshman intramural meet, and to loosen up. Others, less familiar with the ways of the long distance runner, shivered in the 42-degree cold...
...second quarter, Cobb intercepted one of Mickey Beard's passes and raced 34 yards to the Dartmouth 17. Then, in the third period. Cobb grabbed a pass thrown by Gene Rysewicx at the Green 47 and ran it back to the 37 line...
...prince told the court. There, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, Youssoupoff fed Rasputin cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide "sufficient to kill several men instantly." Rasputin merely "coughed," looked "drunk," and asked the prince to sing. Appalled, and in no mood for warbling, the prince ran upstairs to consult his friends and get a gun from the Grand Duke Dmitri. Creeping downstairs again, the prince finally told Rasputin to pray-then put two bullets into his body...
Begging for Status. Born in Mississippi, where his mother ran a boardinghouse, Claiborne decided early in life that boardinghouse reach was not his preferred style of eating. After a hitch doing public-relations work for Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart in Chicago and a tour of duty with the Navy during the Korean War, he enrolled for a year at the Swiss Hotelkeepers' Association school in Lausanne. It is, he insists, the best such school in the world, and he is proud of the fact that he finished eighth in a class of 60 in cooking, sixth...
...British potential and anxious to bite into the home market of British oil companies (which then controlled 25% of Italian sales), Mattei opened the biggest, neatest stations that Britain had yet seen. He intended to add a refinery, but his deal to build one fell through. AGIP ran into increasing competition, began to lose money. ENI Boss Eugenio Cefis, who took over after Mattei died in an airplane crash three years ago, decided to "redimension" the over-extended oil empire...