Word: bowes
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...Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival last year, the social worker was intrigued. In dragon-boat racing, a 2,000-year-old Chinese sport traditionally held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, paddlers race to a drummer's beat in a long, narrow boat decorated at bow and stern with a dragon's head and tail. Pollonais-Britt, 52, climbed aboard with 21 co-workers for what she thought would be a few practice sessions and one pleasant day on the water. Fast-forward nine months, and she is helping lead the Kaiser Permanente Dragon Healers' weekly training...
...meant to blend: they invade our human softness like a sword. Allah is sublime beyond all particulars. There is no God but He, the Living, the Self-Subsistent; He is the light by which the sun looks black. He does not blend with our reason but makes our reason bow low, its forehead scraping the dust and bearing like Cain the mark of that dust. Mohammed was a mortal man but visited Paradise and consorted with the realities there. Our deeds and thoughts were written in the Prophets consciousness in letters of gold, like the burning words of electrons that...
...Harvard, so untested in the final 1000 meters all season long, put together its finest last half when it mattered most. The Crimson showed itself all too prepared for a late deficit, plowing through Yale in less than 200 meters to claim the Bulldogs’ bow-ball in the last 500. The Crimson crossed the line in 6:23.08, and Yale followed in 6:26.67. Harvard made up more than six seconds in the final 60 strokes of the race to nab gold, and Wisconsin rounded out the medal winners with a time...
...five-seat lead over the Crimson and had a slight advantage over Navy early, and the three boats jostled back and forth throughout the course.“I still think that had we raced a little better race we could have gotten second,” varsity bow-man Brian Aldrich said. “But with the way Cornell rowed today—it would have been tough for us to hang with them.”The race for second reached its zenith in the final 500 meters, when Navy, Harvard, and Yale appeared in a near...
Who’s looking at a dude wearing a navy, yellow-striped bow tie with a bottle of raspberry-lime Poland Springs nestled by his hip? Location: Widener. Atmosphere: Pretentious...