Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terriers, led by former British Olympian Glenn Cohen, looked very strong in the early running events as they took first places in the mile, the quarter-mile, the 60-yd. hurdles, the 60-yd. dash, and the 600--where Cohen, who is only a freshman, ran a blistering 1:12.0. But the Crimson managed to maintain a slim lead in the early going by sweeping the field events, their perennial strenth...
...with an American battalion that tried to capture the Australian correspondent alive, by covering an area where Burchett was supposed to be with nerve gas. (Apparently, the U.S. authorities thought Burchett could disclose the whereabouts of American prisoners of war.) Burchett is aware of the risk he ran: he refers several times in Grasshoppers to Paul Leandre, a French journalist whom Burchett claims the Saigon police killed because he revealed the use of particularly hideous weapons against civilians. But he shrugs off any claims to heroism, saying simply, "Well, I didn't find out 'til long afterwards [about the attempts...
...Frisoli ran for the position as city councilor because of an interest in politics he developed while growing up in a family, that has established a political heritage in the 100 years it's been in Cambridge...
...this Saturday morning. It was a passage from Genesis describing the reconciliation of Jacob and his brother Esau, who fathered the Edomites, said to be forebears of today's Arabs. A key passage from the reading: "Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold Esau came ... and Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept...
...oppose the war in the "Editor's Notebook" he wrote. This went out to all his papers, but with no instructions that they must run it. "Most of my editors were against me personally," he recalls cheerfully now. His editorial chairman, Lee Hills, remembers how some editors ran Knight's column "on their Op-Ed page, as just another signed opinion." In the end, Knight's "Notebook" won a Pulitzer Prize...