Word: marathoned
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...Boston Marathon...
...with an artificial heart and nearly 36 hours with a second human heart transplant. Had he fully regained consciousness, he would have learned that he had made medical history: in the space of four days his life had been sustained by four different hearts (including his own). Throughout the marathon medical battle the big concern was time. When Creighton's heart failed on Wednesday, he was put on a heart-lung machine, a device used to pump and oxygenate blood during heart surgery. The machine could be used safely for only three or four hours before causing serious damage...
...best learned early, while the mind is still supple. Every cub reporter, for instance, knows that fires rage out of control, minor mischief is perpetrated by Vandals (never Visigoths, Franks or a single Vandal working alone) and key labor accords are hammered out by weary negotiators in marathon, round-the- clock bargaining sessions, thus narrowly averting threatened walkouts. The discipline required for a winter storm report is awesome. The first reference to seasonal precipitation is "snow," followed by "the white stuff," then either "it" or "the flakes," but not both. The word snow may be used once again toward...
...marathon meetings with farm-state Senators of both parties and with Agriculture Secretary John Block, Dole worked out a compromise: Block, with President Reagan's approval, would sign a letter pledging the Administration to make "adequate" direct loans (amount unspecified) through the Farmers < Home Administration and also to ease the terms under which the Government will guarantee repayment of $650 million in loans from commercial banks to farmers. Boren and his allies reluctantly accepted this as the most that could be achieved immediately. But when Boren took the actual letter to a meeting of all 47 Democratic Senators Thursday afternoon...
...central characters was a gentleman of indeterminate sexual appetites, called Strange Interlude "a play in nine scenes and an epicene." Alfred Lunt, the doyen of Broadway actors, described it as "a six-day bisexual race." Lunt's wife Lynn Fontanne, who starred in the show, said of her nightly marathon: "This is like giving birth--it isn't worth...