Word: marathoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three times during the course of the marathon negotiations, U.S. officials disclosed, the shuttle talks wobbled on the verge of collapse. The first occasion was on Saturday, May 18, when Kissinger was attempting to work out lines of disengagement. Momentarily convinced that the task was hopeless, he ordered his entourage of 62 aides, security men and newspeople to board the U.S. Air Force Boeing 707 in preparation for a flight from Jerusalem to Cairo. But the Secretary flew back by way of Damascus for one final talk with Assad, who suddenly agreed to Kissinger's "blue line" demarking the cease...
Some venturesome souls achieve fame by scaling the world's highest peaks or plumbing the oceans' deepest bottoms. Their feats faithfully find their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves...
Chautauqua Troupers. The transcripts posed a different problem for TV and radio. The text seemed to offer little chance for visual excitement, while its sheer bulk prohibited complete on-the-air coverage (some noncommercial radio stations across the country have been staging marathon readings, however). By Tuesday evening, just hours after the release, all three networks had produced sharp analyses of key presidential conversations, particularly the March 21 meeting between Nixon and Dean...
Wait a minute now, before you go running off to telephone this into Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not. You should be warned that the opponent was MIT, in one of those marathon three-and-a-half-hour Greater Boston League tilts. And to perhaps soften the blow a bit more, only one of the 12 hits was good for more than one base, Ed Durso's leadoff double in the first, and quite a few of the singles were of the scratch variety...
Folk Notes. The Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass present a marathon of local bluegrass bands Sunday, May 12 at the First Congregational Church on Garden...