Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy soon pulled to within a boat length and a half, a threat that prompted Harvard to pick up the cadence from about 33 and a half strokes per minute...
...were a little more careful than usual and our stroke was a little lower, but Navy and Penn were catching crabs [improper oar entries into the water which slow or even stop a boat] right and left, so we had to be careful," Gardiner added...
...edition of Parker's heavies is the smallest ever, averaging a not-so-petite 6-ft., 2-ins. and 185-lbs. They face a boatful of behemoths against Yale including Eric Stevens and Matt Levine, both 6-ft. 7-in. and 215 lbs. However, Harvard boasts more race experience this year and a finely-tuned, lean and strong boat. The race promises to be a classic. As Gardiner said, "There's no question it's going to be a showdown--the most incredible showdown between Harvard and Yale in a long time...
...should be possible to reduce the 5000 to 7000 ready 40-kiloton warheads now on our recommended 31 boats down to one warhead per missle, 16 tubes per boat, for a total of 496 warheads. This is an adequate deterrent. It would still guarantee about 40 equivalent megatons delivered-more than a third of Soviet industry at once, with the probably prompt death of 15 to 20 million people. We say nothing of the raging fires, the confire mated lands, the burned and injured, the epidemic of tumors, the dearth of food and fuel and shelter in the winter...
...crucial lesson that I think this policy teaches our students is that the Harvard Corporation will go hand-in-hand with other corporations, that the Harvard Corporation is so bound up with our economic system that it cannot deviate from the corporate consensus, that it cannot rock the boat, criticizing or by advocating change, that the Harvard Corporation is, in effect, continuing to join with other corporations in doing business as usual, with apartheid...