Word: marathoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former came up from Atlanta for the meeting. During an illustrious career, he defeated both Cornell's John Anderson, who later went on to win the Boston Marathon, and Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter of Yale. About his days of running cross-country at Harvard, his sole comment was "only insane were involved...
Colburn, who ran in the Boston Marathon last year and traveled across the country from Los Angeles just to be here this week, shed a bit more light on the subject. "It was pretty boring back then," he said, "because we used to win all our meets." As for McCurdy, though, "he gets no respect, not even from his own children...
...teachers were in a fighting mood when the strike deadline approached. Finally, after a marathon negotiating session, the union broke off talks, and the strike was on. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Samuel Adams later found five union leaders in contempt of court for continuing the strike-and imposed a $25,000-a-day fine against the union for every day the schools remain closed...
...several marathon talks throughout the week with Costa Gomes, the chiefs of staff and members of the all-military Revolutionary Council, Gonçalves had exerted every effort to survive. "They may have to march Gonçalves out at the end of a barrel of a gun," said one Western diplomat. "But the alternative would be an uprising in the countryside." In fact, violence continued to erupt in northern and central Portugal, where mobs have wrecked some 50 Communist Party headquarters this summer. When a power failure cut off electricity throughout the country for a day, there were widespread...
...town to the railway station to shake hands with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who had chosen to make the 18-hour trip from Moscow by train. Then Kekkonen sped back to the airport (normally a 30-minute trip, but the President made it in 13) to continue the marathon ceremony...