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Word: marathoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloody Marys for breakfast, screwdrivers for lunch, more drinks in the afternoon, leave the hotel at 6, makeup at 8, interview, onstage at 10, hamburgers at a diner, second show at 1, drive home at 3, early-morning party, pass out. A rock artist lives like a modern marathon dancer. Janis craved every bit of the action: "Hey, man, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...race, however, is run at a marathon distance that most American horses, young or old, find impossible to travel at anywhere near their top speed without falling apart from fatigue. Can Secretariat go the distance? If he can, he may not only capture the Triple Crown but also break the record for the race-2:26%, which is also the track record at Belmont Park, set by Gallant Man in 1957. The Belmont track is extremely fast this year for some reason -possibly because of the unusually heavy spring rains that have packed the surface, possibly because of the particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...response, Brandt refused to sign any statement at all. The Germans told their Russian counterparts that the use of Berlin as a pressure point was a central ingredient in the cold war and if the Soviets pursued that pattern there could be no détente. After several marathon sessions, the issue was finally resolved by an oblique reference to the "four-power agreement of Sept 3, 1971"-omitting the word Berlin but reinforcing the Berlin settlement by mentioning its date. That agreement, signed by the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union, provides for free and unimpeded travel between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Determined Suitor | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...band, it was a joke," says his older sister Nickie. He also wrote sports and feature stories for the school paper under the ironic pseudonym Muscles McNasal - Muscles because he was so skinny, McNasal because of a misshapen nose. It seems that Vince bravely concluded a marathon run, then went home and fainted, nose first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Schlock Rock's Godzilla | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...talks country and plays cutthroat, so the last contest of the Las Vegas marathon is his kind of game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Slim's Good Life | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

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