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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duck" Fleming popped one in from 18 feet, but that was the last Harvard bucket for almost eight minutes as Northeastern ran off 15 unanswered points. When Robert Taylor finally canned a 15-footer from just left of the foul line at 11:05 the score was 60-46 Northeastern, and the Crimson had been outscored...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Cagers Bow to Huskies, 81-61 | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

With the halftime score at 45-35, the Cross ran the lead to 20 points before the Crimson went into a more effective pressing defense. Bob Hooft led the Harvard offense with 14 points in the half, scoring 24 on the night...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Holy Cross Mauls Hoopsters, 90-73; Defeat Ups Losing Streak to Eleven | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

...noise of construction work filtering out from his basement, the young boys the mailman and others always saw around the house. Someone told the papers about a fire in the garage (where a couple of bodies were later discovered). A nude Gacy, afraid the bodies would be found, ran frantically from the shower to put it out himself before firemen arrived, readers were informed...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...PAPERS INTERVIEWED the weeping parents of the victims, who blamed shoddy police work. They talked to his ex-wife, who divorced him after finding he "liked boys better." The reporting spread to other states. Authorities sought links to missing youths in Wisconsin, and the CBS-TV Chicago outlet ran a special report called "The House on Summerdale St." in which they stuck a microphone in the face of the Iowa judge who had presided when Gacy was convicted for sodomy several years ago. The judge was lying flat on his back in the hospital but the T.V. reporters were undeterred...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...interview, and the electronic media soon followed. Not to be outdone, the Trib pulled a scoop of its own: An enormous page one photograph of Gacy chained to his jail bed. The guard who sold the photo to the paper was fired. On New Year's Eve, both papers ran special sections. The Sun-Times's "Weird World of John Wayne Gacy" featured an interview with a teenage male whore named Jaime who remembered seeing Gacy cruise the gay bars on the Near North Side. Gacy once picked him up in a place called Bughouse Square, and Jaime barely escaped...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

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