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Word: crewed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Always outspoken and never involved in personal vendettas, he even managed to charm Joseph Stalin during his Moscow service, but at war's end found the aims of Communism and the U.S. "irreconcilable." Calm and courtly, Harriman became a bridge expert at Yale (class of 1913), coached crew and rowed in the same shell with Dean Acheson, later was an eight-goal polo player at Long Island's Meadow Brook club. Even today, dismounted, the slim six-footer is acknowledged by Hobe Sound (Fla.) residents to be a champion croquet strategist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AVERELL HARRIMAN: The Toughest Test | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...camera took aim at the rifle's innards and then switched back to a crew-cut sergeant in fatigues who breezily demonstrated how to strip the weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Now See This! | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Harvard heavyweight crew wins collegiate regattas almost by habit, and it will win again at the Eastern Sprints tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews at Sprints; Track Team at Heps | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...here. (Note the frequency of the word here. The place I am is the salient characteristic of my situation.) It's possible that I'm here to be cool or to meet people or to meet girls (as distinct from people) or to get out of crew or to be arrested. Of course the possibility exists that I am here to precipitate some change at the University. I am willing to accept the latter as true, or, rather, I am willing, even anxious, not to think about it any more. If you think too much on the second tier (think...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

...really made the conflicting imperative scene today. I have never let down the crew before, I think. Let down seven guys. I am one eighth of the crew. I am one-fiftieth of this demonstration. And I am not even sure that this demonstration is right. But I multiplied these figures by an absolute importance constant. I hate to hamper the hobby of my friends (and maybe screw, probably screw my own future in it). I am sorry about that, but death is being done by this university and I would rather fight it now than row a boat...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

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