Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardest stretch in the 17-mile course is the pull up and over Chestnut Hill. Balloon-tired bikes may have difficulty making that one, but they will be given a 20-minute handicap...
...effort to make the race as fair as possible, the Outing Club has devised an elaborate system of time handicaps. Besides the 20minute head start for Balloon-tired bikes, the Club will let American thin-thried and English turning bikes have ten and six minutes handicaps respectively. Racing bikes must start from scratch...
Marathon runners are lonely men. We stood on a hill in Newton and watched the first ten of them pass. Before the leader came running evenly up the hill the balloon salesmen and the ice-cream salesmen and the newsboys and the police had prepared things...
...balloon man with one balloon left was trying to sell it to a man with a baby on his shoulders. The baby was trying to eat an ice-cream sandwich. The red balloon moved down the hill over the balloon man. Two runners moved up the steep hill. Both looked ready to quit. The first one grimaced showing all his teeth, and holding his stomach. The checks of the second billowed and flattened as he breathed. His hands were fists, his feet landed heavily on the asphalt. Across the road, a little girl let go of her balloon...
...another racer. "Come on, Joe. Attaboy. Almost there." At the corner of Exeter street they stop and he heads for the finish line alone. The street is broad and empty and he runs straight down the middle of it. On the sidewalk, a little girl is whimpering because her balloon has been destroyed...