Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience (an estimated 48 million), the show began with a male-female duet of Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. That was followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...
...same time? Solution: Spend your evenings drawing up schedules and post them in the window of the Leavitt and Peirce Tobacco Shop. Spend eight hours a day on the water, coxing("In the beginning, all John saw was arms and legs doing the wrong thing," says Charlotte Crane). Then, listen to eighty girls complaining when the schedule runs late. On occasion, allow them to attack you with water pistols. --From an account of the Radcliffe Varsity Crew's journey to Moscow...
...campaign, I only saw Danny a few times. He had been living in Concord and sometimes rode his very light racing bike around Cambridge and parked it at The Crimson. I saw him two weeks ago Sunday at a home made ice cream stand just down Argilla Road from Crane's Beach in Ipswich. The ice cream was OK, but there were a lot of flies and greenheads zipping in and out of the screen window where they took your money and gave you your cone. I hadn't seen him for six months, but he and his girlfriend, Susan...
...these nine, only one had rowed before this season, a fact that makes the Radcliffe achievement all the more remarkable. Crane, who has been in the program since it took its first halting steps--uh, strokes--two years ago is the sole veteran...
...Cliffe will be a definite underdog in the Europeans, because Radcliffe is a virtual novice when it comes to international competition, and with the exception of Crane, all the Radcliffe starters are first-year rowers. Furthermore, the 'Cliffe's 140-pound average is considerably under the 175-pound averages of the veteran Russian and East German squads...