Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a noisy, 18-hour marathon trial that ended at 4:25 in the morning, Desyr was convicted of killing Jean-Jacques Dessalines Ambroise, a union activist, and his pregnant wife, and of torturing Jean-Jacques's brother Emmanuel, in 1965. Ambroise's cousin Alix, who was arrested along with the couple but survived, told the court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto...
...dawning there were isolated stragglers, determinedly circling suburban high school tracks or pacing through city parks. Most Americans did not suppose these were the harbingers of a U.S. craze. But by the end of the 1970s joggers were everywhere, all seemingly in training for the marathon. Other citizens, plunging into alternate activities, were equally fervid. Swimmers boasted of laps completed, cyclists of long-distance touring, and weight lifters of pounds pressed. Today Americans live in a land where fit is proper. Strut your sweat. The majority, who remain woefully unfit, are now the ones who feel out of step; shamefacedly...
...across television screens more than a year ago continue to haunt and outrage people the world over. A wellspring of sympathy gave rise last year to Live Aid, the globally televised rock concert aimed at putting an end to famine, and last week to Sport Aid, a 78-country marathon to raise more funds...
Robert Burchfield, editor of the just completed (after 29 years) supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: "When we reached zilch and zillionaire, it was like having the finishing tape in sight in a marathon...
...dinner and spend $5-6, we should merely donate $5 to Oxfam. I agree that would be better, but the fact is that if it were not for the fast, almost nobody would just arbitrarily donate the money. Charity in our society needs a gimmick such as the Dance Marathon or the Ride for Life to induce people to give...