Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mustard and relish, enough mustard and relish and beer and roller coasters to make America nauseous for years. There was the story of the artist who visited Daytona Beach to discover sex and intimacy. After several of his propositions were defeated, he opted for a hot dog. Then he ran screaming to the beach and told passersby he was going to swim to England "where its beautiful." He tried, but his body was discovered the following night by a bunch of fraternity jocks who were sitting out on the beach drinking by a resort motel...
...contrast, supplies of natural gas, which is also widely used for home heating, ran desperately short in recent winters because of an artificial pricing system, but they now appear to be ample...
...great man really was, half of England denounced Froude as a scoundrel and a traitor. Biographies were popular in both Britain and America throughout the 19th century, but few modern readers could or would endure them. Speeches and letters were quoted at enormous length-a life of Lincoln ran to ten volumes. Authors were expected to remain discreetly behind the curtains, without a voice or point of view...
...scene had a passing resemblance to Semi-Tough: bedecked in formal duds rather than football pads, premier Pittsburgh Steeler Wide Receiver Lynn Swann, 27, ran an unfamiliar pattern down the aisle of Hollywood's United Methodist Church to wed a comely model and Santa Monica College student, Bernadette Robi, 21, with assistance from beaming teammates and friends like Franco Harris, O.J. Simpson and Sam ("Bam") Cunningham. As part of the mostly traditional ceremony, Swann, who writes poetry on the sidelines, recited one ditty composed for his bride ("My soul is your soul and time is our instrument to build...
...doctors talked compulsively about technical matters to avoid confronting the reality of all the horrors around them. The second is "middle knowledge," a form of knowing and not knowing at the very same time. One doctor who had shipped large allocations of cyanide to the SS storm troopers who ran the camps seemed genuinely shocked to learn that it had been used to exterminate Jews and other people. Comments Lifton dryly: "He had worked very hard not to know...