Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, Lowenstein ran his campaign with storefronts in all Fifth District towns, manned mostly by Jewish mothers and high school students. The workers, canvassing their neighborhoods, opposed Hampton on every point. They called for the unconditional cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam and the formation of a representative coalition government in South Vietnam. Lowenstein himself denounced the war as "the greatest tragedy of American foreign policy in many decades...
...want my audience to feel rather than think," said Playwright Megan Terry about her Viet Rock, which ran for 62 Manhattan performances in 1966. Obviously, she has not changed her mind. The People vs. Ranchman, which opened off-Broadway last week, is equally devoid of intellectual content. Paradoxically, though, it is likely to leave a mature playgoer doing more thinking than feeling...
...simulated matches into a 16-week radio series and billed it as the All-Time Heavyweight Tournament and Championship Fight. Few radio men gave the series much of a chance. They obviously failed to consider all the fans who jaw endlessly about sports in taverns and barbershops. Newspapers ran fanciful accounts of the fights; Las Vegas posted weekly odds. For the final championship fight between Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, an audience of 16.5 million listened over 380 stations as the Rock loosed "a brutal shot to the heart, a slamming left and right to the jaw," and dropped...
Scanning from the left seat, Pilot Pat Evans spotted a brilliant flash on a hilltop 7,900 feet below. A pair of fighter planes wheeled in, tossing bombs into the jungle. Then a string of helicopters settled to earth and squads of infantrymen leaped from them, firing as they ran. Evans shrugged. "They are fighting like hell down there," he said, "and for us it is business as usual...
PERHAPS it started when you were ten years old and you lost a fight with the kid up the block for the first time. You ran home bleeding and crying to your mother and she patched your wounds and told you, "You can't fight with boys, dear. They're stronger than you are." And she was right. Boys not only had strength you could never match, they had all the paraphernalia of strength: sweat socks, Erector sets, laundry bags full of shoulder pads, aircraft carrier models, framed photos of The Varsity, dirty books, baseball cards and pup tents, while...