Word: marathoning
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...first shopping week ever was a marathon. I attended more class hours in five days than I was required to attend in the entire remainder of the semester. I took notes in the classes I shopped, dog-eared the course catalogue most of the way through, sat through entire classes even after they started looking bad and spent a lot of time in the Coop reading books...
...Union speech ever. (In 1946, Harry Truman sent his 25,000-word message to be read by a clerk. It took more than three hours.) Clinton spoke 9,298 words at 104 words per minute, a leisurely pace compared with his 9,375-word, 116-words-per-minute marathon in 1995, delivered in 81 minutes. The 2000 address received a record 119 ovations. Not one Supreme Court Justice showed up. And after praising Hillary, Clinton mouthed, "I love you" at her--exactly...
Monday night's marathon City Council meeting featured yelling, heated debate, impassioned pleas and a campaign to save the white geese of the Charles River...
...BARBARA WALTERS AND MONICA LEWINSKY (ABC) Walters' three-hankie national catharsis turned the impeachment marathon back into the good old-fashioned tabloid scandal it was meant to be. Ridiculed and infantilized in the media for months, Lewinsky was surprisingly sympathetic, confident, unrepentant and, well, telegenic...
Engel cited some events in the spring as evidence that the Boston community is still actively engaged in theater. The Boston Theater Marathon, held the day before the Boston Marathon, is one of the newest innovations. It is a series of ten-minute plays composed by some of Boston's top playwrights...