Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN GEORGE WALLACE ran against Albert Brewer for governor of Alabama in 1970, no one expected he'd have to use a meat cleaver to win. But there is no Marquis of Queensbury in Southern politics, Brewer got a little too close for comfort, and pretty soon Alabama voters were being handed pamphlets with doctored photographs of Brewer in between Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. Pretty soon word went around that Albert Brewer's two daughters were pregnant with black babies. Pretty soon Albert Brewer was back practicing law in Montogomery...
...first giant tanker to be delivered to the Onassis fleet since she took over its management after the death of her father, Aristotle Onassis. The 275,000-ton ship, which earlier had undergone successful sea trials, headed from Brest on her maiden voyage on Jan. 24 and ran into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor chains snapped. So the voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks of the island of Ushant. There the tanker...
...With all our big men in foul trouble, we were handicapped underneath," Carey said yesterday. "We had to lay off of them on defense and they ran right away from...
When I first learned I'd been assigned to North House, I ran to my window in the Yard and yelled several unpleasant things at the top of my voice. But the shock soon wore off, and, deciding to be as reasonable as possible, I went up to the Quad with my roommate group for dinner...
...things must pass, a wise man once said in reference to the human condition, and last night the Crimson freshman team ran headlong into inexorable fate and passed out of the infallible fortune that has clothed them all winter...