Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half to go, the wind shifted and died down-and so did Intrepid. Playing the light air superbly, Hardy came on strongly while Ficker belatedly tried to cover with a tack that left him well to leeward of the finish line. Gretel II squeaked across Intrepid's bow to win a startling comeback victory by 62 sec. At week's end, the race committee, which had packed its bags in anticipation of a 4-0 sweep by Intrepid, unpacked...
...reason for this productive peacefulness lies in the psychology of the Japanese people. Their swift passage out of feudalism in little more than a century has not completely erased the stoic acceptance of a fixed hierarchical order. In contrast to most Americans, Japanese workers are quite willing to bow to managerial authority and place their own desires second to the goals of the company that pays their wages...
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...
CERTAIN basic decisions concerning the type of man the Corporation is looking for have already been made. High on the list of qualifications sought in any candidate is acceptability to both students and Faculty. Whether this is a meaningful bow to student power or simply the pragmatic realization that no president will be successful here if he does not have the confidence of these groups, it necessitates allowing at least a selected group of students to pass judgment on the next president before he is chosen...