Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While majoring in economics, Percy devoted himself to the practical application of that inexact science. Of course he waited on tables. But he also took over and expanded a cooperative purchasing operation for all the fraternities, ran it into a highly profitable enterprise. He assumed management of the libraries in all the men's residence halls. He recruited students for an association of small colleges, got 5? for the name of every high-school student that he submitted and $10 for each of these who actually entered. Business got so good that Chuck subcontracted the job to some...
...promised rewards were glittering: one hundred thousand dollars went to each person with a ticket on the winning horse; $50,000 to the ticket holders whose horse ran second; $25,000 to those whose horse ran third...
...Also-rans would divide a pot of $360,000, depending on how many horses actually ran in the race, which were a lot fewer than the 332 nominated, owing largely to the $1,500 entrance fee for each competing horse. Last week only eleven horses ran. Those with tickets on the eight also-rans won $7,500 each. Those with tickets on one of the 321 nonrunners won $202.49 apiece. And there were altogether six drawings, making six prizes in every category...
...good enough to wear to market, but nothing a native would get restless about. Stunning, thought Jenny Bell, and bought some, intending to turn them into tablecloths. But back in Manhattan, she realized that the Kenya hutwives had been right all along: the kikois were dashing as dresses. She ran up a few tentative models, found the response so enthusiastic that she ran up a few more. Lord & Taylor ordered 1,000, and promptly sold them; so did Dallas' Neiman-Marcus...
...carrying a $4 cardboard suitcase. "I'll never forget the first game I pitched for the Yankees," says Whitey Ford. "I came flying into the locker room at 1 p.m. I had overslept. Nobody said anything, but Bauer gave me that look of his. I dressed and ran. As it turned out, I won the game. Afterward, Bauer came over. 'Whitey,' he said, 'if you'd lost that game, you'd been dead...