Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...
Armed with shotguns and carrying provisions, two men stole aboard the 400-ft. hulk of the Liberian tanker African Queen as she lay stranded and shoal-torn ten miles off Ocean City, Md. It was March, and the sea pounded against the rusting hull of the ship, which had run aground three months before. With 200 ft. of her bow ripped away, the 13,800-ton African Queen had been officially abandoned by her owners; now watermen from Ocean City poked about the hulk, prying at loose fittings, taking everything movable that seemed salable. The two newcomers watched patiently until...
...body from a hired airplane, Hume got off with a mere eight years as an accessory. Upon his release, secure in the knowledge that he could never be retried for the murder, he sold his gaudy story to the Pic for $5,600. When this nest egg began to run low, he replenished it by means of a couple of bank robberies. But each time police got enough evidence to go after him, he darted across the Channel to safety...
...Boys Who Ran a 'House' at Harvard," will appear as a feature story in the Confidential Magazine, appearing on news stands today. The article discusses the alleged libidinous and procurative activities of a so-called Holiday Club, run by students...
...CRIMSON too is guilty. While it has run many articles pointing to the immediate and potential dangers of the loyalty oath, describing faculty attitudes, and reviewing Congressional action, not once has it been suggested that Harvard students ought to do something. Failing to see the "ought," no "what's" have been proposed...