Word: crewman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race was lost, but Rod Carnegie's Revolution had not really failed. It had jolted the staid foundation of British rowing, which has won few honors since World War II. Carrying one crewman as almost deadweight cargo, Oxford's American-style stroke had done so well it could no longer be ignored...
Both Union officials and the Buildings and Grounds member agreed that the roaches were not attracted by dirt in the Union. But whereas some Union employees seemed to feel that the insects were a permanent annoyance in the tunnels, the maintenance crewman said that the cockroaches were not "habitual Cambridge dwellers." He added, "They probably come over from East Cambridge...
...giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips. The few crewmen who slept managed little more than brief dozes ("You can't relax," said one crewman. "Too many things on your mind...
...member of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, which was dusted with radioactive fallout (1954) after a U.S. H-bomb test in the Marshall Islands, and his wife Setsuko Ikeda, 23: a son, described as healthy and normal, the first child born to any of the 22 survivors (one crewman died). Weight...
...athletic contest of an undecided nature was being whipped up between Iowa's crew-cut Republican Governor Leo Hoegh (pronounced Hoe-igg), a onetime (1928-29) swimming star at Iowa State University, and Michigan's lanky Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, onetime (1930-33) varsity crewman at Princeton. After Hoegh addressed a savants' meeting at Iowa State, a professor congratulated Hoegh on Iowa State's recent victory (48-45) over the University of Michigan's swimming team, then suggested that Hoegh take on Soapy Williams in a personal swimming match, a benefit affair...