Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Business School who ran the Cape Cod Marathon in 3:17 in December to qualify for her second Boston race, also credited the crowd with pulling her through in 3:30.24. "It's the one time a year I can feel like a star; if you smile the people start cheering. Wellesley was just deafening and I actually sped up. At Heartbreak Hill, the crowd really kept me going and from 18 miles on, I ran with my thumbs raised I was so psyched...
...years ago as a high school sophomore in Oregon, Kristof completed his first marathon in 3:32. After the grueling race, he promised himself he would never run another. Yet this year, the Lowell House resident recalled the romantic side of the race and began to train at the start of the semester, registering seven to ten miles a day. Kristof found Monday's race fairly enjoyable, especially while passing through Wellesley, where he received ice, oranges and kisses from three Wellesley students. But at the 22-mile mark, Kristof said he "hit a very thick brick wall" that refused...
...minute miles and complete the race in 2:37, Hamilton changed his goal because at the heat, "trying to finish without walking." The 6-ft, 155-pounder succeeded in running the entire race and breaking three hours. While he considered the contest "unsuccessful," Hamilton said he wants to "start running again as soon as possible," adding, "There's always next year...
...what's happening to Becket, but they too participate in a small way in the miracle of Becket's martyrdom and learn something as the play progresses. You wouldn't know it from the actresses at Currier, who maintain the same unbearable level of high-pitched, uncomprehending moaning from start to finish--until the Te Deum they sing at the end, for which their voices suddenly turn saccharine...
Long is a notable case in this art-historical irony, a man who became a professional artist almost in spite of himself. The young Englishman did not start out at the easel, studiously painting still lifes and landscapes. Instead, his art came out of his life, out of his long walks in the wilderness, out of the miles he has traversed in places as diverse as England, Africa and the Arctic. His first works of art were direct factual documentations of his wanderings--maps and photographs carefully recording the trips. Sometimes Long would establish a program; in "164 Stones...