Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christmas has become more than just so much goose, red cabbage, and egg-nog. Retailers have jazzed the festive season into the biggest promotion since the florists conceived Mothers Day. The result has been a marathon for the citizenry which is obliged to scour the shops and come up with something to prove it still believes in good will toward...
Using training he received at Harvard and Tufts, a Foreign Service Officer a now "marrying off some 1,000 G.I.'s to Japanese girls in a marathon race against the expiration date of the so-called Oriental War Brides Act." So writes Nyles Bond, who is second in command at our embassy in Japan, about Jim Martin--both of whom are graduates of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...
...Hollywood, the marathon auction of Hedy Lamarr's personal effects finally got down to the jewelry. Among the trinkets: four used wedding rings, knocked down for a total...
Flanked and followed by 360 cars, trucks and ambulances, containing doctors, managers, officials, timekeepers, mechanics, journalists, wives and mistresses, 123 racing cyclists of eight nations* last week began the 2,900-mile marathon that started in Metz, will cut through a corner of Belgium, down the middle of France to Marseille and the Riviera, back through Geneva to the finish line in Paris. Along the route some 20 million fans will shout themselves hoarse with cries of "Allez Bo-bet!", "Vas-y Barbotin!") "Bonne chance, Louis...
...gotten into any newspaper. These were filed away in his memory, and he began working them into enchanting monologues for the amusement of his friends. In the '20s and '30s, to sit with drink in hand and listen to Jim Thurber off on a free-association talking marathon was an indescribable pleasure...