Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MARATHON 1925: 2:29:01.8, Albert Michelsen 1960: 2:15:16.2, Abebe Bikila, down 9.2% 1988: 2:06:50, Belayneh Dinsamo, down...
SEMINAR TOPICS This year Davos was a marathon of meetings on such topics as "Governing Globalization" and "Islam in the 21st Century." Hillary Clinton brought the house down with a determined and charming closing speech, delivered as Monica Lewinsky was exploding onto the Washington scene back...
...college, she promised the daughter she calls "my angel" that Mommy would be right back. Sadly, though, crank squeezes time like an accordion, and since Jennifer swore her solemn maternal oath, approximately 100 hours have passed in a sleepless, virtually food-free blur of hurried parking-lot drug deals, marathon bouts at the video poker machine and frantic cigarette runs to the mini-mart...
...recently listened to a marathon session of Sinatra's recordings. It was a revelation: hundreds of songs seemed to belong only to him. His diction was crystal clear, no slurring, no swallowing of words. His singing was pure, no pyrotechnics. The focus was on the words. But what really set Sinatra apart was his ability to inhabit a song. When Frank Sinatra sang, you felt he had lived what he was telling you. No other artist so disappears into the lyrics. DIANE DANIELLE Berkeley, Calif...
...great sacrifices. Holbrooke's frantic pre-Dayton shuttle often took him to three countries in a single day. Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy. The outcome of this exhausting and often acrimonious marathon was in doubt until literally the very last hour...