Word: marathoning
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...marathon five-hour meeting during which the council was forced to vacate Harvard Hall and reconvene in the Science Center, the council also voted to reconsider the allocation of the $15,000 windfall from PepsiCo...
...David Foster Wallace's marathon send-up of humanism at the end of its tether is worth the effort. There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page, even the overwritten ones in which the author seems to have had a fit of graphomania. Wallace is definitely out to show his stuff, a virtuoso display of styles and themes reminiscent of William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis. Like those writers, Wallace can play it high or low, a sort of Beavis-and-Egghead approach that should spell cult following at the nation's brainier colleges...
Chung's road to the finals was much bumpier than Majmudar's. In his semi-final match against Princeton's Pat Sweeney, Chung outlasted Sweeney in the marathon...
Which meant that the goal was not only to win matches but to also do so quickly. A two-hour marathon match would make the next one that much more difficult...
There's Opening Day at Fenway Park and the Boston Marathon, and then there's the Beanpot. The city of Boston almost entirely shuts down for these three major sporting events...