Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Varsity boatings were Ted Wandel (bow), Bill Adler (2), Captain Dave Richards (3), Jim Miller (4), Mike Harde (5), Jon French (6), Francis Blake (7), Tony Goodman (stroke), and John Kearney (cox...
...Moanin', Groanin' Blues: Ida Cox (Riverside). One of the classic blues singers displays the supple style, the subtle sense of inflection and phrase, with which she compensated for her lack of the bellows strength of, say, Ma Rainey. Her quarrel with men in these 1920s recordings is unrelenting...
...stand by for his arrival. Their crews had trained for a year for this moment; they were experts at hovering over a Mercury capsule, snagging it with a giant, steel shepherd's crook and getting its astronaut on board quickly. One of the skilled crook handlers, Lieut. George Cox, had fished the Astrochimp Ham out of the drink last...
...capsule descended, swinging widely on its chute, and the choppers buzzed to meet it. They were hovering close when it hit the water with a small splash, three miles away. Shepard had already asked by radio to be taken aboard; so Crook Wielder Cox got a line around the capsule, steadied it and lowered a horsecollar sling to lift Shepard to the chopper.* Safe in the cabin, the first U.S. astronaut exulted: "It's a beautiful day. Boy, what a ride...
...rest of the crew will probably consist of four juniors and two sophomores, all in their first year of varsity competition, with senior Jim Rosenstein calling the signals as cox...