Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fame, which he professed to dislike. He gave an endless series of farewell interviews and accepted one absolutely final nonscholarly job after another, from doing TV sports commentary to acting in movies. Yet did all this help him to achieve his ambition of winning the annual 26-mile Boston Marathon? No. He once finished 50th but by 1971, the year after Love Story, he had dropped down to 489th in a field of 887. When he produced his second work of fiction, Fairy Tale, in 1973, he was still not a writer either. In fact, he seemed even less...
...those telephone weatherwomen are to be believed, more of the same will be featured today when an estimated 1800 runners line up in a Hopkinton street for the noontime start of the 77th annual Boston Marathon. The winners should finish at about...
These rich rewards, however, may be leading the Marathon into a dark era. The event has become so popular that the official field has swelled to a record 1574 entries this year. In addition, hundreds of others--who could not meet the qualifying time--will be running...
From the information I have obtained from Patrick, Lockwood was taken to San Diego where he was "deprogrammed." Deprogramming consists of locking the kidnapped victim into a room and subjecting him to marathon brainwashing with the use of every known technique short of physical torture. The job is usually carried out by a group of up to ten people that work in shifts. When the victim is mentally and emotionally exhausted, the deprogrammers move in the for the kill. The victim "breaks" and accepts the arguments and opinions of those who deprogrammed him. Indeed, the process does not stop until...
...deprogramming target, Arlene ("Patti") Thorpe, 23, a member of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, a commune of several hundred Jesus people in Saugus, Calif., escaped from a marathon ten-day grilling. Her mother, brother and stepfather captured her after a Sunday service at the Alamo commune and drove her 150 miles to what Patti calls "a grim, middle-class motel" in Chul'a Vista, Calif. Ted Patrick, whom she describes as a "softspoken middle-aged man who didn't look like he'd hurt anyone," first took her Bible away from her and then sent...