Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried farming and cutting timber, but acid from strip mining had all but ruined the land. So he began selling his corn liquor to the whisky runners. He now has two basic markets: those counties in Kentucky that have elected to remain dry, and the Kentucky-bred laborers in Cincinnati, Louisville and even Chicago who have never lost their taste for homemade corn. He no longer tries to run his whisky. "Back in '47," he recalled, "I was driving this Army truck and I smacked broadside into a state cop with three gallons under my seat. He took...
...VOICE on the radio was slow and heavy, stumbling like an expiring runner stumbling through a jungle of ill-logic and abandoned good intentions. The echo of congas drumming and a strong electric guitar nearly drowned out the radio's reproduction of Derek Bok's voice. The President of Harvard College was voicing his desire to see the occupation ended without injury. "They're our students and we care about them and their welfare...
Nick Leone, a promising runner the Crimson have been waiting for all year, make a premature return from injury and, according so McCurdy. "ran himself to death." Leone ran a leg on the sprint relay, which barely missed raking first, the open quarter-mile, and a leg on the mile relay...
Fireside Chat. For Squier, it was a rude awakening. If anyone deserved the credit for launching Muskie as the presidential front runner, he did. A TV producer who worked for the Humphrey campaign in 1968, he staged the 1970 election-eve TV appearance in which Muskie clobbered Nixon in the image ratings. After viewers got a glimpse of the strident, gesticulating President, they were soothed by the sight of Muskie calmly sitting in a home in Maine. While the fire crackled in the background, he made a plea for reasonableness in fatherly tones. All that was lacking in the scene...
Later, a group of white runner, led by seniors Mike Koerner and Bob Seals, also elected to withdraw from the Army meet, but chose not to make a firm commitment to leave the squad at this time. Forty others agreed to participate only if allowed to make a formal statement of protest prior to the meet, and wear white arm bands during...