Word: marathonic
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There have been games of dominoes going on in the courthouse at Eufaw as long as the citizens of Greene County, Ala., can remember, marathon games played by old men in bib overalls and soiled fedoras. "I heard they been playing since the Civil War," said one of the game's regulars. The gossip and the political affairs of the county moved across the table with the domino tiles, yellowed now, like the players' hands, by age and use. But the courthouse game ended last week and with it an era. A new black sheriff and judge were...
...part, Heath seemed to have had a bellyful of criticism. After his marathon session with other P.M.s, the British Prime Minister is reported to have remarked acidly: "I got the impression some of them didn't know where the Indian Ocean...
Rivers held a deep mistrust of the press, and with some reason. He was keelhauled by the Washington press corps for his marathon drinking bouts. When he became chairman of the Armed Services Committee, however, he swore off liquor and kept the pledge...
...Metropolitan. Bonn capped months of festivities with the Missa solemnis. In Tokyo, where Beethoven is a rapture-inducing favorite, the Ninth Symphony was done twice in one day. In Los Angeles, Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a phalanx of friends staged a twelve-hour Beethoven marathon. And in honor of the 200-candlepower occasion, that most devout of Beethoven fans, Schroeder, dispatched Snoopy with a canine kiss for Lucy...
...greatest thing that has happened to Harvard in recent years. I saw a preview of the movie. It's an unbelievable tear-jerker. And I met Ali McGraw there. Said I was a friend of Segal's and buttered up to her. She said. 'You run in the Boston Marathon with Segal, don't you?' Made me feel great...