Word: marathons
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...states for approval, backers would have to replace or win over 63 House members and, at last count, at least 24 Senators. Yet advocates like Cleta Mitchell, director of the Term Limits Legal Institute, insist their enthusiasm is abiding. Says she: "I've always considered this a marathon rather than a sprint...
Because of his marathon reign, historians already know a great deal about Ramesses and the customs of his day. But the newly explored tomb suddenly presents scholars with all sorts of puzzles to ponder. For one thing, many of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings are syringe-like, plunging straight as a needle into the steep hillsides. For reasons nobody yet knows, says Weeks, this one "is more like an octopus, with a body surrounded by tentacles...
...happy with my time," said Uta Pippig, after becoming the female winner of the annual Boston Marathon. Who could blame her. Finishing in 2:25:11, Pipping's time was slower than the one that earned her first place last year. Meanwhile, she beat out ail but thirty-nine men in the field and finished considerably faster than any of the times posted in 1896, the event's inaugural year. Only relatively recently have the Boston Marathon and sporting events like it around the country opened their doors to female participants. Given a chance to compete, women like Pipping have...
...Harvard women's tennis team competed in its own version of a marathon this weekend, playing three matches in three days. The Crimson (12-8, 6-0 Ivy) burst out of the starting gate with a 7-0 win over Brown, Friday afternoon at Providence, R.I., and picked up the pace across the middle stages with a 6-1 win over Yale Saturday at New Haven. Harvard 7 Brown 0 Harvard 6 Yale 1 W&M 7 Harvard...
...midst of our season right now andrunning a marathon would be too much for them torecover from," Johnson said