Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grandmaison ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in New Hampshire last November...
McCarthy, who ran for president as an independent candidate in 1976, and for the Democratic nomination in 1968, said yesterday he expects to speak on the "one and a half party system" he says exists in the United States...
Sonnenfeld ran down to tend Sobil while several students dashed to notify the police, who in turn sent for the Cambridge Fire Rescue Squad, he said...
...Satisfaction. But Carter's bill ran into a rambunctious revisionist in the person of Oregon Democrat Al Ullman, the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "The Administration's package didn't really satisfy anyone," said Ullman, who began drafting his own plan. Ullman's attitude was widely shared by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans on the committee who felt that even Carter's meager proposal was too generous toward big businessmen and would not sufficiently cope with the unemployment problem. Instead they preferred a measure aimed directly at creating more jobs...
Ensor's career was not just provincial; it was provinciality itself. He was born in Ostend, the Belgian seaport and watering place, in 1860. His parents ran a little junk shop (it also sold masks for the yearly Ostend Carnival), and Ensor's childhood was obsessed by "our dark and frightening attic, full of horrible spiders, curios, seashells, plants and animals from distant seas, beautiful chinaware, rust and blood-colored effects, red and white coral, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen." Between the immense stolidity of its bourgeois life and the thinness of its cultural milieu, Ostend...