Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sedyh brought the Soviet Union its first of two golds. The U.S. bagged six, the same as Munich and down six from the halcyon days of Mexico City. Which made it fitting that, with two weeks of successes behind them, an East German enjoyed the Olympics' last lap. Marathon Winner Waldemar Cierpinski circled the Stadium in splendid isolation, well ahead of favored Frank Shorter...
Victories were trumpeted whenever a rifle was discharged. The London press reported triumphs on the order of Salamis and Marathon. Proclamations and constitutions also were reported, issued by competing delegations of penniless and powerless clerks, who scuttled about the countryside in city clothes and called themselves governments...
...such a spirit of amity, the 5,000 delegates and alternates may find their chief excitement outside the Garden, in the Big Apple that is playing host to its first Democratic Convention since the monstrous marathon of 1924, when John W. Davis won on the 103rd ballot...
...British and American mercenaries gathered after a nine-day hiatus in the proceedings, during which the five-member revolutionary tribunal had deliberated their fate. Optimism ran reasonably high among Angolan, British and American defense lawyers, even though Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro had demanded death for all. In his marathon summation (3 hr. 20 min.), Monteiro had blasted the U.S. and British governments more than the mercenaries. He branded the U.S. as "the home of the CIA and the mother of mercenaries" and Henry Kissinger as "the traveling salesman of the international crime syndicate...
...Exxon, Texaco. Mobil Oil, Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil. Standard Oil (Ind.). Shell Oil, Atlantic Richfield, Continental Oil. Phillips Petroleum, Union Oil of California, Sun Oil, Ashland Oil, Cities Service, Amerada Hess, Getty Oil, Marathon Oil. Standard Oil (Ohio...