Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varied as Utah, Missouri and Pennsylvania, they marched to their union headquarters to cast their ballots-or, in some instances, angrily shred and burn their copies of the pact. And though the final results would not be in until this week, from the very first tallies the tide ran heavily against acceptance of the contract...
That night the four of us dined together in Jim's cabin, drank wine, ate peanuts and watched the pine and spruce wood fire while we ran our bare feet through the deep shag rug. Jim and Mary Lyn did most of the talking. They talked mainly about the Junior Patrol, to which they had both belonged, and about some of the people on it: Peter Fader, who saved a man's life once, Joe Ward, the hottest skier at Winter Park, and Bob Patterson, the patrol leader before Jim, Jim's best friend on the patrol, and Mary...
...recrossed the bridge and watched the stars some more, then he heard the whistle again. He ran back to the tunnel. "Hey, there's really a train coming," he said, with fear in his voice, "you guys are out of your minds if you don't get out of there." "Bredar, will...
...York Times recently ran a series of stories on the condition of civil rights in America in the ten years since the 1968 Kerner Commission reported on a "separate but unequal society." The Times concluded that the rift between black and white Americans still exists and might in fact have worsened. In terms of jobs, for instance, the prospect is much worse for blacks now than it was ten years ago, when the unemployment rate for blacks was only half what it is today. An estimated 40 to 50 per cent of young blacks in urban areas...
...confusion over the destination of the profits arose in September when The Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News ran stories that said these performances were to benefit the Wildlife Fund...