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Word: marathoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Organ Marathon. Musical experience not necessary. The person who can pound on an organ longest wins a mighty Wurlitzer. Contest starts Feb. 19. Call Mr. Herrick 482-6300 for entry blanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: music | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

...Organ Marathon. Musical experience not necessary. The person who can pound on an organ longest wins a mighty Wurlitzer. Contest starts Feb. 19. Call Mr. Herrick 482-6300 for entry blanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: esoterica | 2/10/1972 | See Source »

...from behind to tie the game 24-24 and send it into a sudden-death overtime. Sudden it was not, however, as the two teams battled on and on and on in the longest game in U.S. pro football history. Finally, after 82 min. 40 sec., Miami won the marathon 27-24 with a sixth-period field goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Biggest Kick | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...Daley summoned the state's top political leaders to a marathon Sunday meeting to discuss the fate of Hanrahan. After heated argument, the caucus decided that Hanrahan had to go. Next day, Cook County's 80 ward and township committeemen met to vote to replace him on the ticket with Raymond Berg, chief judge of the traffic court. They had little time to make the change official. If Berg was going to qualify, they had to have about 6,000 names on petitions by 5 o'clock that afternoon. City business was ignored as jobholders scurried around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Daley on the Defensive | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

After five ballets, three state dinners and a liver-taxing marathon of vodka toasts to Soviet-American friendship, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans and his aides arrived home last week, hopeful that their mission to Moscow would help open a new millennium of trade between the two superpowers. While Stans was busy gaining five pounds from eleven days of Russian hospitality, Soviet-American commerce was likewise growing heftier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST TRADE: Cracks in the Ice | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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