Word: marathoning
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Both George, imprisoned in an Athens military hospital, and Andreas, locked away in a country hotel near Marathon, seemed in good health and bore no traces of abusive treatment. The old man would probably be released soon, like most of the other politicians. Son Andreas, however, faced a more problematical future. He was accused of high treason and, though it seemed unlikely that the military would risk provoking his followers and outraging foreign opinion by executing him, he might be subjected to a long prison term or exile. As for the Communists, they were being shifted to old detention centers...
...high point of the match, and the season, was sophomore John Levin's thrilling three-hour marathon win over Dartmouth's senior Charlie Hoeveler at number one. Hoeveler, as seasoned a player as can be found in New England, took the first set 6-2, but Levin came back to win the second...
...bottom three -- Gonzalez, Appleby, and Steve Devereux -- all won three-setters. Appleby's was a 225-minute marathon...
...where his sensuous, pulsating "Elman tone," far richer than the restrained vibrato and small tone then in vogue, took the music world by storm (to a fan who once gushed that he played like a god, Elman replied, "A god doesn't improve; I do") and launched a marathon, 5,014-concert career that continued until his death; of a heart attack; in New York...
Superdog. At the outset of the week-long hearing, the Senator conceded a surprising number of potentially injurious facts. In a 162-page stipulation to the committee, he described four different "testimonials" held in his honor between 1961 and 1965-one of them a marathon "Dodd Day" that included a high-priced breakfast, lunch, cocktail party and dinner. The testimonials netted over $170,000, and Dodd admitted that $28,500 of the money went to pay off federal tax debts, tens of thousands more to repay personal loans, nearly $9,500 for improvements on his house in North Stonington, Conn...