Word: mile-and-a-half
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...housewife, began getting up at 5 a.m. to jog with her husband. "The first two weeks, my body thought I was going to die and my mind was convinced. I didn't want to do it. I hated it." Now, she says, she feels buoyant after her mile-and-a-half run, and the feeling lasts for most of the day. 'Tm pleased with myself...
Following a post-Inauguration lunch in a Senate office, Carter walked with Rosalynn (and part of the way with Amy as well) down Pennsylvania Avenue, leading the Inaugural parade-a mile-and-a-half stroll on a crystalline but subfreezing day. Four years earlier, fruit and garbage had been thrown at the limousine that carried Nixon down the same avenue...
...whip as Secretariat poured it on. When he crossed the finish line, he had won by an incredible 31 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the Belmont. As he was decked with a blanket of carnations, Secretariat seemed to nod in acknowledgment; after his mile-and-a-half run, he was not even lathered. More remarkable, his time of 2 min. 24 sec. flat clipped a full 2 3/5 sec. off the Belmont record...
...classes which formerly met at the technology workshop have been holding sessions in Hunt Hall. Several members of the class described the workshop as ugly, dilapidated and inconvenient. Apparently the lack of classroom space at the Design School necessitated the use of the workshop, a mile-and-a-half walk from the Yard...
Spengler, meanwhile, was beginning to experience the disappointment the rest of his team had had to live with throughout the race. He had not known who was behind him. With a mile-and-a-half to go, Spengler had turned around quickly and had mistaken the four Penn shirts for two Penn and two Harvard shirts...