Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep through the streets. Army and National Guard amphibious craft cruised about picking up trapped householders from roofs and attics. One man paddled to safety girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass and timber. Sobbed one homeless house wife: "Everything is gone. I don't even have a pair of shoes...
With such an impressive array of accomplishments going for him, Allen, 54, who ran the South's largest office-supply firm before he became mayor, was so confident of re-election this month that he even predicted his percentage of the vote: 72%. For a while, in fact, it looked as if Allen would get 100%. Until the last filing day for the election, he was the only mayoralty candidate. Then, five minutes before the deadline, in jumped Milton M. ("Muggsy") Smith, 63, an Atlanta insurance salesman who made a name during 16 years in the state legislature trying...
Anthamatten looked up from his bulldozer, and later reported, "the mountain came down toward us. I ran, but not for long. A giant wind blew me down. I kept crawling on my hands and knees. I was engulfed by ice; it covered me to my chin. I was caught by the very tip of the slide. I could hardly breathe, but I yelled. Some Italians came and pulled me out. The others ran in different directions. They were never seen again...
Last year alone, home-improvement spending in the triangle ran between $600,000 and $800,000, according to federal estimates. In the last ten years the price of real estate has actually quadrupled-from a song to a high-pitched scream of disbelief. Nevertheless, there is still an apparently endless waiting list of people who are anxious...
Nonetheless, the measures have begun to work. Last month Fowler announced "good and encouraging" results: U.S. payments ran a surplus of $132 million in this year's second quarter?its first black ink since...