Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unused to rowing in a bow-to-bow race, Penn desperately tried to break Harvard by means of an unusually high stroke count. It had worked at Philadelphia and it had worked at Cambridge. And in each case the Quakers had been ahead safely enough so that if the rapid fluctuation in cadence backfired, it had a comfortable lead to fall back upon...
...came down to the fact that we knew that no crew can row a 48 down the course that early in the season without paying for it later in the race," Evan feels. When Penn was ahead, it wouldn't hurt them to jump the stroke. When it was bow-to-bow, it was fatal...
...sure, the aroused students are sticking to local issues. "When they mix in 'Impeach Nixon' and 'End the war,' " says one, "I bow out." Yet last week Alabama held a memorial service for the blacks killed at Jackson State. Amid demonstrations and arrests, epithets ("Liar," "Fascist pig") have been hurled at President Mathews...
...nosed into the riverbank, opened its bow doors and disgorged its human cargo at Hong Ngu. The Vietnamese were greeted by a white-shirted bureaucrat who shouted instructions over a bullhorn. There were tables stacked with forms to fill out and, near by, a tent city to shelter the refugees for the two weeks or so that will be needed to screen and begin relocating them...
...Bow Out. Yet there were indications that Carswell's announcement had caught the White House by surprise and might hurt G.O.P. chances rather than help them. For Carswell's candidacy threatens to tear the Florida party apart in a bitter primary contest with Representative William Cramer, a tough, conservative G.O.P. veteran in the House. Cramer, who already had President Nixon's blessing for the race, stoutly refused to bow out. Last July, he said, Nixon called him to the White House and said: "Bill, the Senate needs you, the country needs you, and I need you." Added...