Word: marathoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...called for a general strike if the bargaining breaks down. Scearce's arrival so greatly cheered Moscone that he finally left his city hall office, where he had been subsisting on coffee and takeout Chinese food, sleeping on a cot, and whiling away late-night hours in marathon blackjack games with aides. City hall itself had been without heat during the strike, and there was no hot water in the shower just off Moscone's office. With federal help on the scene, the mayor felt that he could in good conscience go home to see his wife...
Bromwich, you see, had a noon time engagement with the rolling and often tortuous hills that define the course of the Boston Marathon. And he, along with some 1897 other crusading cohorts, was set to tackle the 26-plus mile run from Hopkinton to Boston in the 80th running of the Boston Marathon...
After a brief rest and a briefer call home (Van Nuys, Calif.), Bromwich went to dinner at Quincy House. Later he stretched out his blistered feet and Heartbreak Hill weary legs and watched a return of Rhoda. "It just goes unsaid that the Boston Marathon is the big time," Bromwich said...
...recent graduates will also attempt to cover the 26 miles: Dirk Skinner '75 ("R 78," a 2:40 in the Philadelphia Road Runner Club Marathon) and Bob Pinkas '75 ("543," a 2:57.20 in the Jersey Shore Marathon...
Schell will don his high school track uniform of blue and white and lace up blue and yellow Tiger shoes and join thousands of others in the 80th B.A.A. Marathon...