Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first game at Quantico, on March 31, was a marathon in time and innings. It took Harvard four hours, fifteen minutes, and thirteen innings to edge the Marines, 5 to 4, under the lights. This was the first time anyone on the Crimson team had played at night in a Harvard uniform...
...dance girl, Redhead stops being deadhead. Her articulate hands, toes and torso are parts of speech and her lines are more pleasing than the script's. Her body is an erotic spoof spelling sex in quotes, as she overtilts a wayward hip or dislocates an amorous shoulder; in marathon-long dances, the stage is her keyboard, and she never hits a wrong note. Under the bravura assurance lies an endearing Chaplinesque poignance. Smiles of delight cross the wistful, wide-eyed Verdon face, like sudden dawns. Eager to please, she seems perpetually astonished at her power to give pleasure...
...marathon three-hour meeting, the Council also voted to set up a preliminary committee to study typing on final examinations and to hold a forum concerning the National Student Association sometime next Fall. Six additional proposals for long-range reports also received preliminary consideration...
Spacemen, Beware! Finally Tripp had delusions: he thought the marathon was over, but that the investigators were playing a game with him to keep it running. At one point he imagined he was broadcasting from another building miles away. These changes in mental functioning reminded psychiatrists of breakdowns under sleep deprivation and round-the-clock questioning in Iron Curtain countries. To psychologists thinking of spaceships, his crackup on the lighted-panel tests were a significant warning...
...were soon back at the conference table. At 9, Anastas Mikoyan dropped by, and the talk returned to trade. At 9:30 it occurred to Humphrey that his wife might be worried about him; a Kremlin aide called her at the National Hotel. And finally, at 11:30 the marathon interview came to an end. ' In London, before flying back to the U.S. last weekend, Hubert Humphrey was cautious about disclosing all the details of his talk with Khrushchev. He planned to report personally both to President Eisenhower and to Secretary of State Dulles-and to carry a direct...