Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascination for the grotesque had almost been satisfied when someone ran up to the intersection and stopped a Cambridge police cruiser driving through. I recognized him--he had been in my Bio section last year. It seems he had just been held up and robbed in the Common. He was trying to explain that to the cop in the cruiser when another officer shouted at him for blocking traffic. The cop in the cruiser pulled over grouchily to talk to the kid, who was scared and breathing hard. The cop took a description of the robber, filled out a four...
...despite its merits, the team has not always reaped the fruit of its efforts. No matter how hard the harriers ran, it seemed the opposition was one step ahead. "We've got a really good team this year, but just the damned misfortune of running against some really great teams," coach McCurdy laments...
Terrell, who received three stitches in his head, said his assailant did not try to rob him. "He just stepped back and when I screamed, he ran," he said...
There was a delay in the process last February, though, when the board ran out of money and was unable to receive emergency funding from the legislature. Solomon says most of the 62,000 growers opposed funding the board because it had been sloppily run and was biasedtoward the UFW. But Gallo did not support either side politically or financially...
When Wampanoag Chief Massasoit celebrated Thanksgiving in 1621 as a guest of the Plymouth Colony pilgrims, his tribe occupied an area that ran from Cape Cod north almost to Boston. Within 50 years, land-greedy colonists had forced the Indians into a corner of their territory, some 20,000 acres in an area known as Mashpee on the southwestern shore of Cape Cod. After another two centuries, the state of Massachusetts decided to turn the reservation into a township, and the Indians naively sold off their land, bit by bit. Today 500 Wampanoag are still living in Mashpee (total...