Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PINE...
Then, of course, there was the favorite: Aurele Vandendriessche, 31, a skinny, hook-nosed Belgian who once held the world record for 30,000 meters, and likes to train before dawn - running 30 miles or so through pine forests when "it's dark, and peaceful, and beautiful." Vandendriessche was the defending champion; in 1963 he did not even arrive in Boston until the night before the race, still breezed to an easy victory in a record 2 hrs. 28 min. 58 sec. This time he lounged confidently around his hotel room while competitors were inspecting the course and plotting...
Paul Bunyan, who used a pine tree for a comb and once hitched his blue ox, Babe, to the foot of a river and hauled it into an adjoining prairie, would have been proud to claim credit for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel...
Into Athens like an avenging archangel swooped Archbishop Makarios, the President of Cyprus. No sooner had he preened the patriarchal pinfeathers and snapped his beatific smile into place than he disappeared for talks at Greek Premier George Papandreou's pine-shrouded villa near the capital. Papandreou hoped to calm down Makarios and avoid increased conflict with Tur key. After a four-hour meeting, the two leaders announced agreement on a "basic line of common policy" that included acquiescence to the U.N. peacekeeping force on Cyprus. But it also promoted "self-determination" for the beleaguered island, suggesting a new drive...
Yearn for immortality? Pine to be remembered till the last dingdong of doom? Want to be sure your memory remains green to every generation of your descendants? It's as easy as hifi. So writes Lester C. Worden in his book, A Living Legacy...