Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dance Marathon Returns...
After a year's absence from the University social scene, the Harvard dance marathon for charity causes is slated to return this February...
Organizers said they expect more than 150 dancers to fill Memorial Hall for the the 12-hour marathon, which they said might raise as much as $12,000 for Phillips Brooks House Association and other public service groups...
...After a marathon journey of twelve years and more than 4 billion miles, the remarkable Voyager 2 space probe is finally approaching its last port of call. Having made historic flybys of Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1986, it is poised for an Aug. 24 rendezvous with Neptune, the most distant of the giant planets. (It will not encounter Pluto, whose bizarre orbit now places it closer to the sun than Neptune is.) Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours...
During the spiritually enervating marathon that passed as the 1988 campaign, presidential candidates were forced to refute publicly rumors of homosexuality, mental illness, illegal-drug use and extramarital affairs. Yet the Donna Rice episode, following months of pious denials of womanizing by Gary Hart, can only have strengthened the public's cynical suspicion that smoke inevitably signals an inferno of secret scandal. Hart's dramatic downfall was an embarrassing spectacle, especially for all the journalists who missed the story. Pam Maples, a political reporter for The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, expressed a typical reaction: "This paper has tended...