Word: thon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people, these scientists and entertainers and aluminum recyclers and french-fry-buyers and little shriveled kids with iron braces on their feet, maybe they can all solve their own problems, or at least make themselves feel a little better, by pouring all this awesome bake sale-hair-cut-a-thon-door-to-door-backyard-carnival energy into affirming loud and clear on nationwide tube all their values and habits and virtues and petty vices. If only everyone looked like them, and spent their time like them and ate and shopped where they did and listened to their records, then everything...
...deals last night, the Houston Astros picked up a pair of infielders from American League clubs, sacrificing a starting pitcher and an outfielder, Astro Ken Forsch moves to California in exchange for Dickie Thon, while Chris Bourjos, who came to Houston from San Francisco in the Enos Cabell deal earlier this year, was swapped to Baltimore for shortstop Kiko Garcia...
GOING TO the movies today gives one the feeling of being an unwitting contributor to a Hollywood Slice-N-Dice-a-Thon. The Saxon theater, the cheesy upstart of the Sack line, fills its lobby with horror film posters. To the left, a nubile woman is undergoing a tracheotomy by cleaver, and to the right, half-naked women cringe in terror as an ax-murderer emerges from the shadows...
Near Chicago, 850 Glenview, Ill., schoolchildren spent the day planting trees to beautify the town; 200 miles to the southwest, residents of the Springfield area were completing a weeklong "trash-a-thon," aimed at cleaning up the litter along some 90 miles of local roads. Traffic was banned on part of Main Street in Ann Arbor, Mich., where 5,000 Earth Day strollers examined solar water heaters and other exhibits. In Atlanta 300 people devoured a giant 180-lb. Earth Day birthday cake-made, naturally, with no artificial ingredients...
...Haufe, director of fundraising for the group, said yesterday. "We've never done a rock concert before, but we're every excited since we will be able to reach a lot of young people this way." Haufe said. "It's radically different from our usual benefit jog-a-thon in the financial com- mittment and complexity of the arrangements that have to be made before it's actually pulled off," she added...