Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exemplars of the breakdown of order and respect. When the hecklers booed, Wallace bowed and blew them kisses. "They got me a million votes," he said, adding that he needed the hecklers; silence caused him to flub his lines more than once. But late in the campaign he ran into a reverse form of hectoring. Lank-haired students wearing Wallace buttons cheered him wildly and chanted, "Kill for peace!" Such demonstrations left him dumfounded...
...American and puppet troops ran away...
Sullivan's integration program initially ran into savage opposition. Critics challenged the school board in a 1964 recall election. The proposal to throw out the board-and presumably Sullivan, who was chosen by it-won 15,000 votes, but 23,000 people backed the board. Since then, Sullivan has faced threats against his life, still gets hate mail accusing him of being a Communist. Things might have been worse, he suggests, if Berkeley residents had not had "other things to occupy their interest," namely, the frequent turmoil at the Berkeley campus of the University of California...
...city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched past a maze of utility lines, climbed out through a manhole and examined the topside, with its parking meters, trolley tracks and working Volkswagen. Planned as a six-month exhibit, "What's Inside" was so popular that it ran for five years...
HENRY ROBINSON LUCE, the cofounder of TIME, probably had less personal publicity than any other American of comparable influence; he was widely unknown, and what was known about him was often wrong. Luce was particularly nettled by Wolcott Gibbs' brilliant parody profile in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"). Once, after Luce had visited a college class in contemporary biography, he exploded: "And who do you suppose the class was discussing? Me! And what do you suppose they were using as their text? That goddam article in The New Yorker! Is this thing going...