Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much that Harvard did the slow shuffle during this weekend's marathon; the other teams just picked up the tempo in events where the Crimson was weak--the breaststroke and the butterfly--and slowly dampened its spirits...
Endless hours of repeated intense foot tapping beat any universal workout for strengthening thighs. Serious poker players lose more sweat through their palms in one marathon encounter with financial disaster than the whole Celtic team does during a practice, and much more during a game...
During McClees' victory epee fencer Russ Kaphan battled in a marathon match with Princeton's Glenn Gwozdz. Gwozdz eventually won the duel, after being tied with Kaphan at 4-4 for almost five minutes, withdrawing his blade from a tie-up with Kaphan's and touching him in the stomach...
...Muhammad All, in his hardest fighting trim, had been flattened by some tank-town lightweight. Berkey Photo, a financially rickety New York-based photo-products manufacturer and retailer of cameras, film and chemicals, with sales of about $200 million a year, won a favorable jury verdict in a marathon antitrust action against Eastman Kodak (1976 sales: $5.4 billion). During the trial, which lasted six months, Berkey claimed that it had been grievously damaged by Kodak's alleged monopoly power; Berkey lost $24.2 million in the first nine months of 1977. To the astonishment of many legal experts, the jury...
...mile and a half along the Potomac footpath three times a week at 6:30 a.m. He also reads voraciously and fast. Recently he has consumed the biography of Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, Menachem Begin's autobiographical White Knights and Jules Witcover's Marathon, the story of Jimmy Carter's pursuit of the presidency. Says Blumenthal: "I wanted to see how they got together...