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He ran for the office of Governor of Delaware in 1916, but was defeated by Republican John G. Townsend, Jr., a businessman from Selbyville, Delaware.
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We ran out of money and we haven't eaten for two days ''.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.
They ran for three hours.
For ten minutes they ran beneath the squall, raising their arms and, for the first time, shouting and capering.
The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.
He ran for the sick room, found his pistol was broken, and threw it away.
We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.
Watson ran up the ladder and stood for a second sucking in the cool air that smelled of mud and river weeds.
So when the Big House filled up and ran over, the sisters-in-law found beds for everyone in their own homes.
set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.
The average reader of this magazine owns more than one gun ( we ran a survey to find out ) but he's always on the lookout for new and better arms.
Instead, he whirled and ran to his house for a gun, forcing them to kill him, Cook reported.
During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.
The game players saw the Air Force film Monday, ran for 30 minutes, then went in, while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes.
Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.
And so the sun came up again and for a moment its color was the young men's blood, shifting then into the full heat and outcry which ran with their hearts.
In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.
Absalom himself was caught by his head in the boughs of an oak-tree as the mule he was riding ran beneath it-an irony given that he was previously renowned for his abundant hair and handsome head.
In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.
In 1872 he ran for election to fill Tennessee's new at – large seat in the House of Representatives.
The King ran an office for captives from the Royal Palace, which leveraged the Spanish diplomatic and military network abroad to intercede for thousands of prisoners-of-war, receiving and answering letters from Europe.
While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.
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Her words jumbled together and she all but ran from the office and from the question in Rev's face.
Madero responded by founding the Benito Juárez Democratic Club and ran for municipal office in 1904, though he lost the election narrowly.
* The Post Office: Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones ran the post office who often dealt with ( mostly ) unhappy customers.
After the war, Hannibal successfully ran for the office of suffete.
In one incident reported by Colonel Sarkisov, a woman who had been brought to Beria refused his advances and ran out of his office ; Sarkisov mistakenly handed her the flowers anyway, prompting the enraged Beria to declare " Now it's not a bouquet, it's a wreath!
Uribe ran for office on an anti-FARC-EP platform and was determined to defeat FARC-EP in a bid to create " confidence " in the country.
In 1880 Marshall ran for public office for the first time as the Democratic candidate for his district's prosecuting attorney.
Receiving lousy reviews and box office during its previews in Washington, D. C., rewrites and restaging helped ; it was a smash Broadway hit and ran for 964 performances.
Agnew ran for election as Baltimore County Executive in 1962, seeking office in a predominantly Democratic county that had seen no Republican elected to that position in the 20th century, with only one ( Roger B. Hayden ) earning victory after he left.
Hendricks ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1876, but won the office when he ran again with Cleveland in 1884.
The new Republican Party was not fully formed, and significant numbers of politicians, mostly former Whigs, ran for office under the Opposition label.
In the United States, Greens first ran for public office in 1985.
He ran for office several times, but always lost to Republican candidates.
No formal Federalist nomination had been made, and it is not clear whether Howard, who was one of several Federalists who received electoral votes for Vice President, ran as a candidate for the office.
In 1921, they moved to Asyut and later in 1923 to Khatatba, where Abdel Nasser Hussein ran a post office.
Dole ran for office for the first time in 1950 and was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, serving a two-year term.
He ran into one office, only to come face-to-face with an officer he had previously fallen out with.
Malda ran the site out of the SourceForge, Inc. office in Dexter, Michigan.
Lady Astor became known as a friend to soldiers, and that proved useful when she ran for office.
The Tories felt that she had become a liability in the final years of World War II, and her husband told her that if she ran for office again the family would not support her.
Instead he ran for, and won, the office of governor of Tennessee, defeating the former governor, William Carroll.
He hired experienced staffers such as Lowell Murray, Duncan Edmonds, and William Neville, who shaped his policies and ran his office efficiently.
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