Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ran from a Greenwich Village tea party to witness the grisly Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which killed 146 working women. She redoubled her efforts for the league and successfully pushed factory reforms in New York state, pulling working hours for women down to a then unprecedented maximum of 54 hours a week. In 1919, Governor Al Smith appointed her to the state's Industrial Commission and warned Roosevelt in 1929, "You'd better not let her get away from...
...sharply executed "search-and-destroy" operation, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...
...press, with a few important exceptions, overly critical of Johnson. The New Republic announced in a front-cover editorial that L.B.J. "just misses flunking" his foreign-policy tests, and the New York Times ran one editorial after another faulting Johnson -for thinking the U.S. omnipotent, heating up the Cold War, hamstringing Congress. Yet even the Times had its disagreements. The same day that an editorial lambasted the "Johnson Doctrine" (a term coined largely by the Times itself, with some help from other papers) for putting the U.S. in the "unenviable, self-righteous and self-defeating position of world policeman," Times...
...Crimson trackmen, winning 8 of 18 events, ran up an amazing total of 83 points in the Heptagonal Championships here today, leaving the opposing nine squads strewn far, far behind...
MIDNIGHT PLUS ONE by Gavin Lyall. 249 pages. Scribner. $4.50. Lewis Cane, hero of this adventure yarn, is a former British agent who ran guns for the French Resistance during World War II. After 15 years of private-eying, he finds himself back on the Continent convoying a fugitive millionaire industrialist from Brittany to Liechtenstein. In the course of dodging everyone from police to the hired killers who are after the industrialist, Cane retraces his old Resistance route through the Auvergne, encountering wartime friends and enemies and fighting several pitched battles along the way. British Author Lyall...