Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika, nearing the end of their month-long marathon around the U.S., popped up unannounced in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where they beamed from a box while Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted the New York Philharmonic. After the concert, the King awarded Maestro Mitropoulos the decoration of Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix. As photographers' flashbulbs went off, the Queen, by now used to the chin-up-and-smile orders barked at her, complied expertly, quipped to the picture-takers: "You'd think we'd been trained...
...Expect for a few reflective paragraphs which seem superfluous and some strained metaphors like "The flat, heavy sunlight squirmed inside his head," the writing is fast-moving and clear. The author is stronger near the end where he flavors the story with much of the vigour of a motor marathon...
...other favorites, in order: craps, roulette, 21 (blackjack), bingo and poker. The town has its stories of huge winnings and losses, but individual winnings are restricted by house limits on betting, and nobody ever breaks the bank (the big houses keep week-end reserves of $500,000 and more). Marathon players are commonplace (the local endurance record: 72 hours), and they get breakfast on the house-and lunch and dinner, too, if they are durable...
...billiards of 499,135 points (1907) after five weeks' faultless use of the "anchor stroke" (i.e., the cue ball caroms off the red and white balls jammed in a corner pocket, and rolls back to its original position for another shot); in Lancing, England. After Reece's marathon, the game's rules were revised to bar more than 25 consecutive anchor strokes, cutting Reece's best break under the new rules to 1,151 points...
...Marathon. In Barren Hill, Pa., caught in a stranger's closet, Burglary Suspect Benjamin Waites said that he "was running away from the stevedores," failed to explain how he happened to be 15 miles from Philadelphia's strikebound waterfront...