Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week before the New York Marathon I was in a cab on my way to La Guardia Airport. The cabbie, trying to make conversation, said, "You see all those cars going the other way? Those are the runners coming in for the marathon...
...marathon's not 'til next week," I told...
That one will be the survivor of a grueling, two-year political marathon to succeed Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) as the next representative of the famous and coveted Eighth Congressional District...
After Premier Fabius bid the Soviet couple adieu that afternoon, a weary high French official delivered his assessment of Gorbachev's marathon effort. "I can tell you, he made good use of his public forum," the official said. "He knows what he wants. He is firm, but he is not without flexibility and subtlety." So far as his major objectives in Paris were concerned, however, the Soviet leader's charm and subtlety yielded little in the way of substantive results...
...weeks ago, while training for this month's New York Marathon, I took a break and went to a running shoe store to check out a pair of the new yellow Sock Racer...