Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three Harvard starters in the Boston Marathon yesterday, one never started, the second was definitely seen to get off an MTA bust marked "BAA, Emergency," and the third was last seen walking along the road at Wellesley...
Leaving the White House after a 45-minute conference with the President, Lucas glumly admitted: "This issue has to be met sooner or later." Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath feared "the greatest marathon of all times" but promised: "We will fight it out to the bitter end, all summer and all winter if necessary." To his Rhode Island constituents, Senator McGrath declared: "Maybe you won't get all the housing or economic welfare you want. But if these things must wait upon human values then I say, 'Let them wait.'" This week the filibuster began. Georgia...
...rolled and pitched on the voyage from Havana to Florida. But the U.S. border patrol had been tipped off from Cuba; an amphibious plane had spotted the ship and radioed a report to shore. They were seized as the schooner slipped into the little fishing village of Marathon, 100 miles south of Miami on the Florida Keys...
...Bakers. In the unparalleled production marathon of 1948, many a U.S. businessman marched in seven-league boots. Charles E. Wilson's General Motors turned in the biggest profits of any single U.S. company (estimated $425 million), and by tying wage increases to the cost of living, showed a statesmanlike concept of management-labor relations. Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery put on his own special one-man show; since midyear, he had fired or accepted the resignations of his president and seven other executives, but he still turned in the biggest profits (about $65 million) in "Monkey" Ward...
Three hours later they came away feeling as if they had been through a small Alabama "nawther." It had been a tough struggle even to get their questions asked. With scarcely a break in her marathon monologue, Tallulah had danced the Charleston for them, played piano, told jokes, done imitations and a few ballet turns, tossed off some mint juleps, fed them shrimp and mushrooms and showed them the house. She had discussed her artesian well ("We had to dig 260 feet, and we finally hit 25 gallons a minute"), her health ("I have the arteries of a girl...