Word: buoyed
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...heavies started quickly, grabbing a length's lead by the 500-meter mark. There, a quartering tailwind drove the race close to the Cambridge riverbank, and bowman Ruth Colker lost half of her oarblade on mooring buoy...
...been working hard all week on high cadence pieces and getting in shape, and it took a second settle to get the boat under control." Diane Hickman, at number five, said yesterday. "It seemed to be coming together until we hit the buoy, and that threw off the balance...
...final match of the day, Princeton's Bryan Miller carded a 76 to buoy his team to victory, as Harvard's number seven man Peter Smith incurred a ruinous triple bogey on the way to an 80. Yale finished a distant third, eight strokes off the Crimson's pace...
...known he will be a star of some kind (and who could, if this movie takes off, become a multimedia presence of some force). He is contrasted with Louis Ferrigno, 24, a Brooklynite trained by his ex-cop dad, an intense and excitable man who is always trying to buoy his boy's confidence. By the peculiar standards of bodybuilding, young Louis appears to be every bit as gorgeous as Arnold. What he cannot see, and what his old man will never accept, is that Arnold has a gift that cannot be acquired no matter how hard an athlete...
...Radcliffe shell, manned by Ruth Colker, Diane Hickman, Wicki Royden, Robin Lothrup, and coxswain Patty Glovsky, took the race by two seconds despite a collision with another shell which cost them half on oar, and a tangle with a buoy that left them at a momentary near-standstill...