Word: tarahumura
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Over mountains, across deserts, between corn fields, down a thousand Main Streets goes the jogging army?Arabs, Finns, great Danes, bandy-legged Italians, blackamoors, Kansans, Californians, Georgians, the Tarahumura Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico, whose sandals go clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . They sit in ditches and catch their breath. They sleep in haystacks, hotels, Hupmobiles. They suck lemons, swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first...
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