Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the House Armed Services Committee, which opened Congress' first major investigation of the draft since 1951, the white-haired, crew-cut Hershey defended continued exemptions of college students training to be professionals such as doctors and engineers. "If we want skills that may be critical tomorrow," he argued, "we should be prepared to defer them when the needs of the armed forces permit." Noted Hershey: "There is concern over 'inequity.' Equality of ability, equality of service do not exist." When Pennsylvania Republican Richard Schweiker argued that a "national policy would reduce these inequities," Hershey coolly countered...
Early Monday morning, as the first sightseeers wandered around, surrounded by the still spotless carpet, the shiny floors, and the expanses of glass, an electrician worked on the lights inside, and a crew of men arrived to put flowers in the large white tubs on the central courtyard...
...turned out, the Bulldog's bark was a good deal worse than his bite. At an even 4 miles, the Harvard-Yale crew race is the longest in the U.S.-more than three times as long as the Eastern Sprints. Yale's strategy, explained Hathaway, was to "stick with them in the first mile and pressure them afterward." Yale could have used more mucilage. At the end of a mile, the Bulldogs trailed by half a length; after two miles, Harvard's margin was up to three boat lengths. Rowing mostly at a steady 33 strokes...
...Harvard's claim to being the No. 1 college crew in the nation needed any further substantiation, it got plenty on New York's Onondaga Lake last week, where Wisconsin, which previously had lost to Navy, which had lost to Princeton, which had lost to Yale, won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship. Badger Coach Norm Sonju naturally had a different view: spring, he pointed out, is always a little late in Wisconsin. "We don't get out on the water until April," Sonju said, "but we always get up for this race." Way up. Trailing Navy, Brown...
...screen without obvious padding. Regrettably, though, the sneaky trick ending remains the sort of hokum that good writers have blue-penciled since O. Henry's heyday. Probably no one will object to the bottom dealing because Little Lady is handsome entertainment, mounted with leathery high spirits by a crew who would gladly trade their horses for a full house...