Word: marathon
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Sunday I walked down First Avenue as tens of thousands of runners came gasping past - panting, bedraggled, heading toward the finish of the New York Marathon. They looked awful - basket cases pounding along in their underwear. They looked like Jimmy Carter that time he marathoned himself to a frazzle in the Catoctin Mountains near Camp David and had to be helped off by Secret Service agents...
...wrong assumption" that he could automatically deliver Florida) will be inspiring a flip-the-brothers vote by 2004, says the Republicans will win Florida and the White House because they're united and excited, and the reasoning is sound. Monday morning, Gore starts a 30-hour go-hoarse campaign marathon in which he'll try to achieve the same trick with the Democrats. And he'll be praying for sunny skies on Tuesday...
Lamy quipped that he planned to eat hormone-enhanced American beef to help him buff up for his upcoming marathon...
Harvard showed great ball control in the half, posting a 14-play, 79-yard touchdown drive to begin the half. and an eight-minute, 17-play marathon drive to run out the clock in the fourth quarter...
...kaleidoscope of exuberance. And it hasn't worked. After all that profligate expenditure of self, he remains locked in a too-close-to-call race against a nice enough fellow from Texas and Yale whose mind, even in the midst of a presidential debate, seems to behave like a marathon runner at the 24-mile mark--struggling, panting for coherence...