Word: marathonic
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...most important vote this year, the Cambridge School Committee brokered a deal on parental choice at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) in a marathon eight-hour meeting Tuesday night, avoiding the threatened resignation of the school's principal and partially patching up a deep divide within the committee...
Bill Clinton is out of office and Ehud Barak looks like he will be too in a matter of weeks. So why are Israelis and Palestinians suddenly engaged in a 10-day negotiation marathon...
...Ashcroft's primary mission was to fend off attacks from Democrats, who assailed his record on civil rights and questioned his dedication to "sensible gun laws." The nominee, who appeared fairly energetic at 10 a.m., seemed to age 15 years during the course of the marathon day. And while Ashcroft held his own as the accusations intensified, Democratic senators Joe Biden, Dick Durbin and Edward Kennedy appeared especially eager to land as many blows as possible, roaring across their table at the frustrated nominee, who asked several times for "uninterrupted time to respond...
...Norwegian commandos who successfully skied overland all the way to Sweden (over 250 miles) after blowing up a Nazi heavy water facility that was a key component in Hitler's attempt to manufacture an atomic bomb. More than a few sports have some type of military component (e.g., the marathon), but the vision of my Nordic brethren frustrating totalitarian invaders using superior tactics, marksmanship and skill on skis completed the intoxicating vision. By late 1999 there was no doubt: Biathlon was gonna be the sport...
Next, I embarked on a 24-hour cinnamon-bun-baking marathon, blending some 11 cups of flour, six cups of sugar, a pound of butter and various other ingredients into an array of sweet treats. Martha Stewart's maddeningly precise and time-consuming recipe almost drove me to the pop-open cans, while AllRecipes' obtuse instructions and cake-mix ingredients struck me as suspect. I liked Epicurious' tip for using a sandwich bag with a hole in the bottom corner to drizzle on glaze like a pro, and found cooking.com's guidelines to be the most straightforward...