Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coequal branch. John Kennedy came bursting into the White House with a copy of Richard Neustadt's book, Presidential Power, under his arm. There were, he declared, ways to get things accomplished despite a recalcitrant Congress, and he was going to show everyone how. Almost immediately he ran into trouble with Congress, and few of his most prized programs became law during his lifetime...
Negroes hurled bricks and bottles from rooftops, smashed the windows of the police cars. Rioters ran through the streets, shattered virtually every storefront window in a four-square-mile area. Looters dashed into the stores, grabbed racks of clothing, cases of liquor, groceries, furniture-anything they could move. They overturned cars, set fires, burned down a hat shop. Burglar alarms rang constantly...
With the approval of the two governments, Tshombe's chief agents had set up shop in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Identically worded want ads ran simultaneously under three headings (Vacancies, Opportunities, Business) in major newspapers. In Salisbury, recruiters passed slips of paper reading "55715" to nightclub loners, whispering to them to "Ring that number, Jack, and you'll be all right...
...more Ranger than Rossini. And Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee inevitably conjures up visions of Brit Reed, alias the Green Hornet, who when adventure-bound was trailed by a string orchestra playing his tune. Do-Gooder Brit also had the only automobile on radio that ran on wasp power. The Hornet is one of the few oldies to show his age. "Sufferin' snakes!" he blurts, "that's real white of you." One mystery for modern listeners is why Kato, his faithful valet, starts out as a Japanese and winds up as a Filipino. Simple...
...major holdings in downtown Toronto. Rayne, who has every intention of expanding his U.S. beachhead, figures that the planned G.M. building may well cost about as much as Manhattan's Pan Am building. That structure, which was 45% financed by a consortium of other British real estate men, ran to $100 million...