Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claim that he already has the support of 45% of Virginia's voters, and can win if he captures 65% of the Negro vote. Actually, despite the Republican's more liberal racial views, most Virginia Negroes appear reluctant to swing back so soon to the party that ran Barry Goldwater only last year; few black faces were seen among the crowds that heard Holton and Nixon last week. Nonetheless, Holton may gain unexpected strength from a sizable new voting element: the young federal employees and their families who have fanned out across the Potomac to settle in Virginia...
...among Africans in the land of apartheid. As the scratched and bloodied survivors tumbled from the wreckage, one black shouted: "It's the Europeans who planned this murder of our brothers." The first white man to come to the aid of the wounded-signalman Walter Hartslief, 25, who ran to the scene from his trackside station-was surrounded by the furious mob, beaten, knifed and trampled to death in the dust...
...loss to an also-ran in the League would almost wreck Harvard's chances to win the Ivy title, and it is highly likely that Columbia could spring an upset this afternoon. After a few anxious moments, the Crimson should...
...Sales have been running ahead of 1964 all year," says Otto Eckstein of the Council of Economic Advisers. "It has been the same story virtually every month." August actually ran at a 5.6% gain, well below the 9% gain of January and February and the 8% gain of July-but merchants feel relieved that the advances have continued. Across the U.S., one big department store after another is reporting sales gains over last year: up 15% for Atlanta's Rich's, 18% for San Francisco's Gump's, 6% for Dallas' Neiman-Marcus...
They were kept for months in the total blackness of a dank cell in a Laotian mountain prison, their lacerated bare legs locked each night in crude wooden stocks, helpless to do anything more than curse when rats ran across their bodies, even more helpless to care for themselves when dysentery and bladder infections racked their bodies. Sanity hung by such threads as U.S. Special Forces Orville Roger Ballenger's calm recital each night of the 23rd Psalm, the creation of a deck of playing cards with tissue paper smuggled past the guards. Above all, they were sustained...