Word: heartbreakingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forgoing their usual trek around the Charles River, several members of the Harvard community yesterday took their daily run to the big time--Heartbreak Hill and the Boston Marathon...
...runners agreed that Heartbreak Hill once again lived up to its reputation. The Hill is so named because it is a particularly hilly part near Boston College towards the end of the race, when runners desperately struggle to try to get a second wind and finish the race...
...Heartbreak Hill is up and down, up and down. It comes at a time when you hit the wall," said Geesaman, who finished his second Boston Marathon in a time of 3 hours and 50 minutes. "It is really traumatic...suddenly you just have nothing, you start getting chills, you can't lift your legs...
Although the Harvard contingent managed to getpass Heartbreak Hill, they did not escapeinjury-free...
...there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? In between writing penetrating tales of domestic heartbreak (in novellas such as The Age of Grief), she tossed off a 582-page novel that drew upon her knowledge of Old Icelandic (The Greenlanders). Now, having won the Pulitzer Prize and a permanent place in America's gallery of tragedians with A Thousand Acres, a punishingly dark look at sexual abuse that brought King Lear into the American heartland, she comes up with a 414-page campus satire that culminates in the encounter of a 700-lb. runaway hog and a former Pork Queen...