Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlotte Crane stroked the 'Cliffe crew, with Martha MacDaniel. Dotty Horns, and Julie Meck at seven, six, and five. The bow four included Judy Levine. Debbie Weil, Sarah Wood, and Cathy Barbash, at four, three, two, and bow respectively...
...Cliffe crew consisted of Charlotte Crane at stroke, Martha McDaniel at seven, Dotty Horn at six, Julie Meck at five, Sarah Wood at four, Debbie weil at three, Judy Levine at two and Cathy Barbash...
...varsity boat shapes up with co-captains Charlotte Crane and McDaniel holding down the stroke and seven position, respectively. Dorothy Horns will row six. Julie Meck will hold down the five spot with Sarah Wood at four, Debbie Weil, at three, Judy Levine at two, and Cathy Barbash in the bow position, round out the boat...
...Deacon, now 59 and a Cadillac salesman in Rochester, N.Y., competed in his first world pocket-billiards championship match in 1937 and finished second to Ralph Greenleaf, the best pool player ever. Crane went on to win the world title five times between 1942 and 1970; he would have done even better if Willie Mosconi, probably the alltime second-best player, had not become his nemesis...
...still is. In the climactic game, Crane coolly opened up a lead of 103 to 57. Then Butera hit two hot runs and went ahead 110 to 101 (Crane had lost two points on fouls). It was enough to make Crane break his stoic silence. "That's just a lot of luck," he muttered to a nearby spectator. It became Crane's turn again. He dipped his fingers in talcum powder, sipped some water and hunched over his cue. Forty-nine times he hunched; 49 times the cue jabbed forward; 49 successive times a ball disappeared into...