Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical...
Russia picked up seven points with a 3rd, 4th, and 6th place in the Ski Marathon...
Nurses swish up and down the hall in an endless marathon. White coats wheel frightening machines in and out of doorways. Parents habitually come and go during visiting hours. The arrival of dinner wagons for listless appetites is strictly punctual. Everywhere there is white and order: the stiff jackets, smocks, and bandages, the precise reports and charts, the crisp doctors and nurses. Amidst these antiseptic surroundings, in the children's ward of a large metropolitan hospital, spontaneous good times are rare. Someone from outside must bring diversion...
Convalescing from writer's cramp after a marathon of autographing some 4,000 copies of the first volume of his memoirs in Kansas City, Harry S. Truman visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Asked if the second volume of his reminiscences, to be published next February, will stir up any fuss, jaunty Author Truman grinned: "I might have to go live in Timbuktu...
...self-propelled crossing of the English Channel, Marathon Swimmer Florence Chadwick, 36, of San Diego, set a new speed record, splashing ashore in France 13 hr., 55 min. after leaving England. Her time was eleven minutes faster than the record set in August by English Swimmer Bill Pickering...