Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remembers, "favored me with little nickel blue books: writings of Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, Thomas Paine, Bob Ingersoll, Upton Sinclair, Voltaire." Young Terkel was ripe for this heady blend of populism and indignation. The political passion of his life was conceived in 1924 when Fighting Bob La Follette ran for President on the Progressive ticket. "There were two other candidates," Terkel notes, "one of whom...
...Boston Red Sox, guard for the New York Knicks or quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. But anyone with enough determination can run the marathon - and even the stragglers do a good deal better than Pheidippides, the gallant Greek who started the madness back in 490 B.C., when he ran 25 miles to tell his fellow Athenians about their troops' great victory at Marathon. Though many have feared the worst, no one has ever expired in the Boston Marathon. Pheidippides, goes the legend, was so pooped by his performance that he staggered into Athens, gasped "Nike!" (Victory!) and dropped dead...
Behind almost 150 yds. at the third handoff, Taylor ran the fastest quarter mile of her life to take the lead in the last stretch of her leg. Hart, running a strong anchor, carried the baton to victory...
...much impressed," Hunter said. "Just think, last week the girls were all lounging In Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, and the Carribean and today they still ran tough...
...Crimson defense went on to stifle B.C. for the rest of the game, allowing only two goals, while Predun, with four more goals, and Martin, who finished with five assists, ran a Crimson attack that never...