Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carvalho, a prominent figure in the Portugese Revolution of 1975, ran in the presidential election in 1976 as an independent and came in second, receiving 16.5 per cent of the vote. Carvalho was also influential in preparing liberation treaties for Mozambique and Angola...
Across the street at Nini's Corner, employee George Fielding stood idly by a stack of unsold copies of the WallStreet Journal. Sales of the Journal declined today. Fielding said. "We sold 600 copies of the Times today until we ran out at 2 p.m.," he said, adding, "On an average day before the strike, we would sell about 300 copies...
...valor against the enmity of fiends during his lifetime." Worthy sentiments, but that hardly makes the comic Nylon Pindar a fiend. More a shitsucker, in Chet's phrase, more Runyonesque. The Caribbean syndicalist novel is not an art form of the future; after all, Hero's engine never really ran anything; it just went around in circles...
Washington's last ditch efforts were stalled by a fumble with less than a minute left to play inside their own half. Washington quarterback Joe Theisman dropped the ball when jarred by a blind-side tackle. The Colts easily ran out the last few seconds of play as Jones several times took one or two steps back and fell on the ball...
...game's final score came late in the game when J.V. cornerback Dave Bindelglass picked off a Jon Ealy aerial and ran it back 40 yards for a touchdown. Brad Lown added his third extra point and the J.V. had their 21-0 victory...