Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assistants from chalking diagrams on a blackboard, West has concentrated on overall strategy and getting the best possible play from his charges. But it is in inspiring somewhat lackluster talents that he has excelled. With the coach leading the cheers, the Los Angeles bench resembles a rah-rah college crew more than a collection of blasé professionals. West passes the hours on planes and in the team bus building the Lakers' confidence and, seemingly, willing them into winners. A genuine camaraderie has developed among the Lakers, and West has led the off-court high jinks where such cohesiveness...
Scrunched in the bottom left hand corner of page 8 of the catalogue is this curious little premium: Would you like to be cox of the HARVARD CREW for an hour at a time to be arranged with Coach Parker? $150 Who, disguised as a mild-mannered crew coach, disrobes backstage at Symphony each Saturday evening to reveal a stiff white collar caked with stale rosin from last weekend's manic rendition of Bruckner's eighth? Seems just about everyone is in on the adventure. And who could resist? With the opportunity to test your skills in the stern...
...other women racers turned in strong performances in their first-ever races. Sometime rower Wikki Royden finished 22nd "on hard-core crew strength," Captain Singer said yesterday. Judy Giddes came in 28th...
...separations because of the campaign. Excited at the newness of it all, Jimmy Carter rose every morning at 6:30, drank orange juice while he dressed, and was in the Oval Office by 7, reading the newspapers and his daily news summary. Although his staff is a shirtsleeves-style crew, Carter has so far worked in a coat and tie, forgoing the sweaters and blue jeans that were his pre-Inaugural uniform in Plains. To ward off the chill, Carter usually sits in an apricot-colored wing chair near a crackling fire. His first appointment every morning...
...Harrimans have been one of the main social bridges linking old Washington and the new Administration; they held one of the first post-Inauguration dinner parties for the Carter crew. Another bridge builder is Liz Stevens, wife of George Stevens, the director of the American Film Institute; many Carter friends and staffers were at her party for Tom Brokaw, host of NBC's Today show. Other partygivers in Washington, where the sitdown, candlelight dinner still prevails, have duly noted that the Harrimans and the Stevenses both served buffet style, in keeping with the Carter crowd's informal manner...