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run and gauntlet
This caused some alarm but no injury but participants did have to run the gauntlet of " No Pride " abuse as they ran to the buses.
Boone and his men were taken to Blackfish's town of Chillicothe, where they were made to run the gauntlet.
It took thirty days to reach Canada, at which point Hayes was forced to run the gauntlet.
It took thirty days to reach Canada, at which point Hayes was forced to run the gauntlet.
While a prisoner of the Abenaki, he and his fellow prisoner Amos Eastman were made to run a gauntlet of warriors armed with sticks.
Tankers sailing from the oil terminals of Iran also had to run the same gauntlet.
In practical application he must successfully run the legislative gauntlet during the first hurried ninety days he is in office if he is to adopt a program and have an administration worthy of history's harsh pen.
This ritual consisted of the first-year being stripped and forced to run a gauntlet of senior students, all of whom wielded a knotted towel, which they used to hit the accused on his journey along the line.
When it came time for Wingate to run the gauntlet, for allegedly having returned a horse to the stables too late, he walked to the senior student at the head of the gauntlet, stared at him and dared him to strike.
Wickwire tried to pull him out, but his shoulder had been dislocated, and he didn't have the strength ; Kerrebrock eventually died of hypothermia, and Wickwire had to run the gauntlet of the remaining crevasses alone.
After some violence to south-going buses near the intersection of Locust Avenue and Hillside Avenue ( Hillside Avenue has been renamed Oregon Rd ), concertgoers were diverted to head northward to Oregon Corners and forced to run a gauntlet miles long of hostile locals, veterans, and outside agitators, who threw rocks through windshields of the cars and buses.
Reed is sentenced to run the gauntlet ( approximately 500 lashes ) and is discharged from the permanent party.
Captain Forrest had run a gauntlet all the way from the conference called by McDade back to his company when the NVA mortars started coming in.
Kulp and the escapees run the gauntlet of the sea to avoid the mage's random spells, but in the process they are transported into a warren.
Between this and Tomer Darpen's willingness to sacrifice Wedge to preserve relations with Cartann, Wedge and his wingmen are forced to run " the gauntlet ", braving mobs of citizens and pilots eager to kill them for honor, in order to escape with their lives.
Scott was the second to run the gauntlet, with his second opponent being Ric Flair.
Running the gauntlet ( originally gantlet, and, rarely, gantlope or gantelope ) is a form of physical punishment wherein a captive is to run between two rows — a gauntletof soldiers who repeatedly strike him.
In Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls the aristocrats of the town are subjected to a form of the gauntlet wherein they are led to and run off a cliff by villagers.
" In further explaining his request, he wrote, " Judge Levine, in the cynical guise of enforcing the rules, forces pro se complainants to run a hostile procedural gauntlet until they lose hope, and either withdraw their complaint or settle for a pittance, regardless of the merits of the case.
Anders Andersson was sentenced to run the gauntlet.

run and programs
But further thought brings the shuddery visions of a governor's race being run in the next Legislature, the spectre of big spending programs, the ooze of mudslinging before the campaign should even begin.
However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.
Access to ROM memory occurred at 2 MHz regardless of graphics mode so theoretically programs released on ROM could run at least twice as fast as those released on tape or disc.
A keyboard was developed, and the keyboard had an expansion port ( which was the SIO port from Atari's 8-bit computer line, though the 7800 could not run Atari computer programs ) allowed for the addition of peripherals such as disk drives and printers.
A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.
These instructions could be combined to create useful programs for the EDVAC to run.
In 1964 IBM introduced its System / 360 computer architecture which was used in a series of computers that could run the same programs with different speed and performance.
Two or more computer programs may run simultaneously on one computer, a process known as multitasking.
Users need to be wary of opening unexpected email, and should not run attached files or programs, or visit web sites that are linked to such emails.
In dovetailing fashion, all programs of all lengths are run, until enough have halted to jointly contribute enough probability to match these first N bits.
When the amount of RAM is not sufficient to run all the current programs, it can result in a situation where the computer spends more time moving memory from RAM to disk and back than it does accomplishing tasks ; this is known as thrashing.
Winelib, a part of the Wine project, is the inverse of Cygwin-it is a free and open source compatibility layer for Unix-like operating systems on the x86 or x86-64 architecture that can allow programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
The first computer using a multiprogramming system was the British Leo III owned by J. Lyons and Co .. Several different programs in batch were loaded in the computer memory, and the first one began to run.
Early computer-music programs typically did not run in real time.
These programs now easily run on most personal computers, and are often capable of more complex functions than those which would have necessitated the most powerful mainframe computers several decades ago.
Traditionally most computer music programs have tended toward the old write / compile / run model which evolved when computers were much less powerful.
Since these devices are used to run countless different types of programs, these CPU designs are not specifically targeted at one type of application or one function.
The demands of being able to run a wide range of programs efficiently has made these CPU designs among the more advanced technically, along with some disadvantages of being relatively costly, and having high power consumption.
This allowed customers to run their existing LINC programs, or " upgrade " to the PDP-8, all in software.
Third party programs were also written to handle the loading of various WADs, since the game is a DOS game and all commands had to be entered on the command line to run.
Nova assembly language programs can be run under Bob Supnik ’ s SIMH emulator, in RDOS.
The new design used most of the basic PRISM concepts, but was re-tuned to allow VMS and VMS programs to run at reasonable speed with no conversion at all.
This program ran only on IBM VM / SP CMS, but was the inspiration for other programs, including filelist ( a script run via the Xedit editor ), and programs running on other operating systems, including a program also called flist, which ran on OpenVMS, and fulist ( from the name of the corresponding internal IBM program ), which runs on Unix.

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