Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ingredient in lacquer and varnish. But the country's main crop is opium (one-third of world production") grown on the mountaintops by Meo tribesmen who also profess to be werewolves. Laos' biggest import is U.S. dollars-for the past five years U.S. aid has run from $43 million to $54 million a year...
...York Governor Nelson Rockefeller got another chance to say yes, ducked again. Forty top Republicans in New Hampshire (notable exceptions: two Nixonmen: U.S. Senator Styles Bridges and G.O.P. State Chairman T. Borden Walker) urged Rockefeller to run for the 1960 Republican nomination in the primary next March (the nation's first). Replied Rockefeller: "I wish I could give you a definite 'Yes' or 'No!' . . . but in all honesty I feel I cannot...
...pick freshmen without a score card is getting to be no way to run a college. Who are they? What can they do? Are they even college material? Soaring enrollment demands precise answers, and only 12% of U.S. colleges (250) belong to the famed College Entrance Examination Board, which serves mainly renowned Eastern institutions...
There, Jones pitched a no-hitter, but never began to realize his potential until he went to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1957. Last year he had a record of 14-13, but led the league's starters with an earned-run average of 2.88, and struck out 225 batters. Traded to the Giants, Jones has had no trouble finding the plate this season: "I guess when you throw a million balls you learn what's going over and what...
Luders' coup came just as the Cruising Club rule committee was sitting down to the thankless task of considering revisions of the formula. Loudest gripe is against the designers' most successful postwar innovation-short, wide-beamed center-boarders that not only run faster off the wind but also drive relatively well into the wind matched against their deep-keeled rivals, who have to give them time under the formula. Most famous of these boats is Olin Stephens' Finisterre, which all but revolutionized ocean racing by winning the Bermuda race...