Word: marathoned
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...most alpine ski resorts, many people are now going the nordic route. For full-time competitor as well as amateur, there is a price for the solitude they find along rural trails: hard work. Few sports are so demanding. On long, thin skis, cross-country skiers are like marathon runners covering miles of rugged terrain while burdened by pounds of awkward gear...
...drug fiend, I'm not a drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted...
Boston's answer to the Kentucky Derby? Perhaps the Marathon will take credit for that status, but this evening's affair at the Boston Garden does. In its own parochial manner, have all the surrounding festivity of the traditionally, renowned sports events...
...towels. Hefner's associates say that it is highly doubtful that hard drug or even marijuana consumption took place "under Hefner's eyes-or with his approval. In the past, Hefner has been a heavy user only of amphetamines-mostly to keep himself awake during his marathon editorial conferences...
Brady's book and the international tournament may well stimulate interest in Monopoly marathons, which have often erupted on college campuses. In an endurance test in Denver last summer, 34 students set a record by playing continuously for 41 nights and 42 days. When University of Pittsburgh players ran out of play money during a 161-hour marathon, Parker obligingly delivered $1 million worth of new scrip by plane and Brink's armored car. To allow a group of Massachusetts scuba buffs to play under water, the company devised a waterproof set; the game lasted 11 hours...