Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ward off psychic crackups while traveling through space, Dr. Wilcox sugests a stream of homey news from earth, and televised views of moms and sweethearts. Where such therapy does not sufice, he believes that a therapist should keep in communication with the crew by microphone and loudspeaker. Ever-present and all-hearing, he will watch from disant earth for the first warning signs of a psychological storm-to-come. By the technique of group therapy he can smooth ruffled feelings and try to keep peace on the spaceship all the way to Mars...
Right from the start, the Cambridge crew, with two Americans in the boat, swung into a slow, traditional Oxford-Cambridge beat, their long, light-blue-bladed sweeps moving through a 90° arc, their bodies laid back, almost horizontal, at the end of each stroke. Oxford, though, rowed in an un-British style-their sweeps were shorter, the oarsmen pulled in shorter arcs, and at the end of each stroke the eight crewmen were still almost upright on their seats; they were depending on legs and arms for their drive...
...studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford's New College), he plunged into the science of rowing and plowed through two coaches who disagreed with his innovations (one lasted only a day). Neither man could stomach Carnegie's new style or his strenuous training methods. But the crew could...
Putney all the way to the heart of London where no Oxford or Cambridge crew had been before...
When contacted last night, a member of the Buildings and Grounds crew refuted the steam tunnel theory. "The steam tunnels are spotless, spick-and-span, all painted white," he said. "I don't see how it's possible for roaches to reside there...