Word: marathoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marathon Session. There was no glib talk this time of Labor's first hundred days, but Wilson set out to make his first hundred hours count. The first item on the agenda was to get the coal miners back to work- and back to work they went. Even before he was sworn in, Wilson's new Employment Secretary, Michael Foot, summoned officials of the National Union of Mineworkers and the government's National Pay Board. In a marathon twelve-hour bargaining session, they managed to hammer out an agreement that had eluded Heath's government...
...shown in the U.S. only at a few museums, planned every move and wrote every word of the 3½-hour assault. The length, which hurts only occasionally, is a part not only of the design of the film but its final impact. The real triumph in this emotional marathon lies in the shady areas of tone and balance. Disassembling and reassembling his blighted lovers in various moods and stances, Eustache achieves a fine perspective - detached but never dispassionate...
Sophomore epee specialist Eric Read came from a 2-0 deficit in the last bout to down his opponent in overtime of the marathon four-hour meet and give the Crimson its second Ivy victory against just one defeat...
Freshman Peter Tetlow breezed to victory in the marathon 1650-yd. freestyle event, and placed a close second to Cornell All-American Bob Meade in the 200-yd. butterfly. Sophomore Dave English turned in a solid performance on the boards, taking top honors in the one-meter competition and placing second in the three-meter...
...right. Only one challenger had earned a victory (Spassky won 32 games and granted eight draws) when the marathon drew to a close after almost five hours. Charles Madigan, 21, an intense college dropout, forced Spassky to concede after 51 moves. Then, in a statement that sounded like Bobby Fischer at his brashest, Madigan said: "I didn't play very well...