Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Against the UMass varsity, Radcliffe coach John Baker has set a boat with Diane Hickman at stroke, Allison Hill at seven, Hannah Shore at six, Karen Oberhauser at five, Gall Rasmussen at four, Marie Adams at three, Katie Moss at two, Robin Lothrop at bow, and Nancy Hadley handling the coxswain chores...
...Radcliffe J.V. eight will have Barbara Norris at stroke. Ann Robinson at seven, Gertrude Bancroft at six, Ruth Colker at five, Joyce Mack at four, Bren Buckley at three, Ellen Feld at two, Jane Clark at bow, and Amy Sacks...
Huntsman's "A" boat will have Mizzy Stokes at stroke, Antoinette LaFarge at seven, Janet Mazur at six, captain Dottie Kent at five, Roxanne Malenbaum at four, Mary Hunt at three, Marsha Cline at two, Gish Jen in the bow, and Barbara Pearce...
There were other incentives. The Navy had never examined a Soviet torpedo; the G-class subs carried at least ten in bow and aft tubes. U.S. naval experts also had never subjected the steel used in Soviet sub hulls to metallurgical analysis. Test results could tell them how deep Soviet subs can dive, a vital bit of information in undersea warfare...
...those who want to disassemble Thurber as an eight-year-old would a broken alarm clock, the gears and springs are all here: the bow-and-arrow accident that cost him one eye at the age of six, the loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...