Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They start the two-day annual marathon today, as the University waits to hear the name of its new President...
...quiet conference outside the Senate chamber last week, Majority Leader Robert A. Taft and New Mexico's Clinton Anderson (whose ailing heart was beginning to hamper his leadership of the marathon-talking Democratic opposition) agreed that it was time to call a halt to the 21-day offshore oil filibuster (TiME, May 4). The Senate quickly approved a plan to vote this week on the Holland bill, which grants seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries. In total, the filibuster: 1) aroused no public outcry against the bill, 2) changed few senatorial...
...usual four or five. "I always keep in good shape," he explained. How was he able to resist the call to the men's room? Good control, he said, vowing that he had had no auxiliary devices strapped to his leg. What was the purpose of his marathon talk? He was one of "a band of liberals" who wanted to "focus public attention" on the tidelands "giveaway," said Morse. He was obviously satisfied that his exhibition of strength and endurance had contributed to the focusing process, though the question was a major issue in the election campaign...
Keize Yamada, 25-year-old Japanese mining engineer, set a record yesterday by winning the Boston A.A. marathon in 2:18:51, six minutes, 48 seconds faster than the 1947 record set by a Korean...
...turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store. It is a marathon one-woman show and, all in all, proof that Bette Davis -with her strident voice, nervous stride, mobile hands and popping eyes - is still her own best imitator...