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...blade: cool way of saying oar. Also a way to refer to the painted part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Head-of-the-Charles Primer | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

crab: put the blade in the water at aother than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water, which in turn destroys the rower's rhytym and at worst flips him or her out of the shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Head-of-the-Charles Primer | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

scull: to row with two blades. This is as opposed to sweeping, which is with one blade per person. Sculling can be an individual sport, a shell with just one sculler is called a single...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Head-of-the-Charles Primer | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

sweep: to row with only one blade. This is as oppsoed to sculling, which is with two blades, one in each hand. A sweep has both hands on one blade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Head-of-the-Charles Primer | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans up its act, there might well be legislation." Singer Dee Snider showed up in tight jeans and a cut-off T shirt and fought past his nervousness to tell everyone that the band's song Under the Blade, allegedly a glorification of S-M, was in fact about fear of surgery. "The only sado-masochism present," he insisted, "was in Tipper Gore's mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is a Four-Letter Word | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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