Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year the lights finished third behind B.U. and a surprisingly strong Notre Dame crew...
...first freshman eight was the only Harvard crew not to finish first in Sunday's racing on Lake Carnegie...
Kaplan, 50, a square-built, methodical man with a crew cut, left Czechoslovakia last September after a checkered career in his country's politics. A lifelong Communist, he was appointed to head the party's Culture and Propaganda Committee in Bohemia only a year after the 1948 Communist coup d'état toppled Prague's last democratic government. Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure...
...problem began as workers were performing maintenance operations on a well at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Platform Bravo, a stilt-legged rig some 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of the well, pumping heavy mud down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew...
Nervous Debut. He has spent four weeks putting final touches to the show, sharing office space in the same building as the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman crew. He hands visitors who come to his messy office a business card that reads, MY CARD. He is nervous about his prime-time debut, convinced, like the new boy in school, that he won't find any buddies. If he is too outrageous, Chase fears, "people will switch channels and watch the semifinals of the archery." But confidence does not desert him for long. "When you're talking about a prime...