Word: bladeful
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...challenge from Pleasant Colony. Finally, as the horses headed into the home stretch, Summing would wait no longer. He burst into a four-length lead. Said Martens: "He just dragged me out front." When Pleasant Colony finally made his move, it was too little, too late. Highland Blade closed to finish second by a neck, and Pleasant Colony was fading as he came to the wire 1½ lengths behind the leader. Summing, who paid $17.80 to win, finished in 2 min. 29 sec., one of the slower times in the 113-year history of the Belmont...
...meter mark, the cadence was upped a stroke every ten sweeps of the blade, and Princeton yielded three more seats. MIT was more concerned about boat lengths...
...absolute faith in its reporter. This might be considered a virtue ordinarily, but the circumstances surrounding the publication of "Jimmy's World" were anything but ordinary. Though bright and ambitious, Cooke was rather inexperienced for such a sensitive story, having worked only 2½ years at the Toledo Blade and nine months at the Post. In "Jimmy's World," she described how a black youngster was given heroin injections by a drug dealer as his mother looked on. Cooke had earned the assignment by writing what one editor described as a "brilliant" story on 14th Street, N.W., which...
...your oars and tie in. Shove off at seven exactly. A few short commands from the cox, and your arms, legs and hands snap into their accustomed roles, pulling the blade smoothly back and forth through the water on the paddle. The only sound is the slosh of the water, the knocking in the oarlock, and the creaking of slides on their tracks. You aren't winded yet, and allow your muscles to pull with exquisite control and power. You begin to heat up, and sweat forms cold spots on your back and under your arms...
...gradually picked up the jargon: "Endgap" is the shelf at the end of an aisle: a "cutter" is a razor blade with a sheath: "fills" are sets of chores involving filling endcaps by opening cartons with cutters. A "carryout" means helping a perfectly healthy old lady carry six bottles of Sprite and getting stiffed...