Word: thon
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About 200 House residents and adminstrators braved the brisk fall air yesterday to take part in the egg toss, tricycle race, dunk tank, dough-wrestling, assassin game and millipede-a-thon...
Participants also competed in assasin and themillipede-a-thon. In assassin, contestants try totrack down and "kill" one another with waterpistols. The millepede-a-thon pits five teammateswith their legs tied together in a race againstidentically handicapped opponents...
Like a walk-a-thon, Cyclists Fighting Hunger, who have now completed four cross-country rides, made their money by getting friends and relatives to sponsor them a few pennies a mile. After 4200 miles, those pennies...
...myself to the stadium, about a mile and a half. Everything was moving in slow motion; I was sweating pretty good." Despite forgetting all he knew about pitching the instant the game began ("It was like I'd never been on a mound before"), Gooden struck out Dickie Thon to end the first inning, and 275 others before the season was through (not including the side he struck out in his first All-Star inning). Philadelphia's Grover Cleveland Alexander (227) and Cleveland's Herb Score (245) had lost their longstanding places as the breeziest rookies in the history...
...Write-a-thon for freedom and emigration rights for Soviet refuseniks: commencing at 2 at Harvard's Memorial Church...