Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franciscans use public transport by arriving for a performance of The Daughter of the Regiment on a bus. Then oldtime Upstager Hermione Gingold, 77, made her operatic debut in the tiny role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp and turned what should have been a brief appearance into a runaway slapstick turn. Finally, some 3,552 emotional fans gave Soprano Beverly Sills an ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after major but successful cancer surgery, and Sills was making the first of five performances scheduled for the next two weeks. She was 40 Ibs. lighter...
Since then, junior co-captain and All-American Hess Yntema has decided to quit swimming and last season's diving star Dave English has been sidelined by cervical surgery. A once runaway Crimson aqua-machine has been tamed somewhat and a close four-way race between Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth has developed for the Ivy laurels...
...runaway price of staples, a source of anguish to housewives and politicians, has spelled disaster to a considerably less vocal segment of U.S. society: the Southern moonshiner. All the essential ingredients of corn likker have skyrocketed: sugar (up 300% in a year), grain and yeast, as well as the copper used for piping and kettles and the plastic jugs in which illicit hooch is transported and sold. A gallon of moonshine that used to sell for $1 now goes for $6 or more. As a result, the tide of "white whisky" that used to flow from Appalachian hills and hollers...
When they were asked what problem most frightened them, people had trouble deciding between runaway inflation (55%) and a further slowdown in the economy...
...beginning of the season, it was supposed to be a runaway. The Brown soccer squad was picked by just about everybody to walk off with the Ivy League title unmolested. The Harvard squad, under a new coach, with quite a few sophomores and no outstanding individual talent, was supposed to be reposing quietly in the league cellar...