Word: marathoning
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...mile Boston Marathon each year on Patriots' Day* have a variety of motives. At least one 200-pounder runs it to reduce. Stylianos Kyriakides ran it last week because he is a Greek...
Stylianos is a 35-year-old electric-bill collector, holder of the Greek marathon† title, who lived through the misery of wartime Athens. A year ago he had an idea: Greece's first victory in 50 years of Boston Marathons might dramatize his struggling nation, gain U.S. aid for his hungry countrymen...
...state holiday in Massachusetts, on the anni versary of Paul Revere's ride. This year the marathon was held a day late because Patriots' Day fell on Good Friday...
...looks equally luscious in sequins or a fringed doeskin skirt. Minor causes of excitement: horse-chases, barroom brawls, shootings, knife-throwing and a baby teetering over a precipice at the end of a fallen tree. Frontier Gal oversteps the bounds of conventional horse-opera morality by including a kissing marathon and several rough-&-tumble bedroom scenes...
...knows his drinking habits, has left him no money, no whiskey and no credit with any neighborhood bar or liquor store. Milland, a gentlemanly alcoholic given to reciting from Shakespeare in cultured tones, leaves his dim, disordered room only to cadge money or drinks to get him through his marathon bender...