Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's boat, which included Radcliffe oarswoman Wiki Royden, outdistanced the seven competing boats to win the 1000 meter race in 3 minutes 13 seconds. Harvard crew coach Harry Parker has been coaching the team for the past month at the first national training camp for women which is being held at Harvard...
Ford's jet Air Force One is tended day and night by a ground crew of about 25. Well before a scheduled trip, an Air Force advance agent goes to the destination and checks out all landing details. Moments before the presidential plane takes off or lands, Secret Service agents drive down the runway to make sure it is clear of debris and to check for bombs...
Nancy stayed for a few minutes to talk to Daig O'Connell, a red-haired, sunburnt crew coach from Berkeley who goes out in the launch with Parker every day, trying to soak up what he can from the master. At the same time, he serves as a link between the inscrutable Parker and the anxious oarswomen, who try to extract what information they can from Daig...
Lynn Silliman, the coxswain, who is only 16 and looks like a 13-year-old blonde-haired, pug-nosed tomboy, had seized the water bottle the crew takes out on the river and was impishly squirting Carie, who looked to be about twice her size. Lynn is obviously younger than the rest of the group, whose average age is 23--when Lynn saw Parker's son George reading a comic book called The Inkumans, she grabbed it and asked with keen interest, "Oh, have you read Swamp Things?"--but no one seems to notice the age gap too much...
...living with people, day in, day out--you didn't really have a chance to get away from people...And I didn't really like a lot of what I saw--things that were unsporting, just bad sportsmanship. I don't know, maybe it's because women's crew is such a new sport, but you'd think you'd be above that by the time you got to the world-championship level. I don't know." She hesitates, not really wanting to put into words what she wants to say. "It's a really dirty game. When...