Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President tried to take the week's cudgelings in stride. Ten minutes after the White House was formally informed of the impending Lance indictment, Carter donned his jogging togs and ran four miles on the South Lawn. But privately he was infuriated. Said an intimate: "I've heard him use more profanity in the last four days than in the last four years...
...doesn't have any loyalists around here. We all ran ahead of him in the last election. Now, when he's weak in the polls, members feel free to put space between him and them." That sense of political weakness extends far beyond the polls. Said one Democratic politico after a White House meeting: "I don't know where they think their electoral base...
...addition, there were outlays for brightening up the estate for the Nixons and making life more comfortable: a flagpole, for example, cost $2,329; golf carts ran to $15,929; and a bill for decorative pillows came...
...curmudgeon H.L. Mencken lived. The future "Observer" satirist was unaware of that, though today he suspects that Mencken was the elderly gentleman who one day called the cops to chase Baker and some fellow ballplayers out of the square. In high school, young Russell was well liked, athletic (he ran the quarter mile) and showed promise as a humorist with a senior-year essay...
Seven houses of varying lack of distinction constituted the community. A dirt road meandered off toward the mountain where a bootleg still supplied whisky to the men of the countryside, and another dirt road ran to the creek. My cousin Kenneth and I would sit on the bank and fish with earthworms. One day we killed a copperhead which was basking on a rock near by. That was unusual...