Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whistle shrilled the abandon-ship alarm. Nightgowned women and screaming children rushed to the decks. The crew quickly got all passengers into the lifeboats, dropped the boats halfway over the side. There the passengers huddled for three hours, until rescue ships came alongside. Sunrise revealed that the Magdalena had been sailing a good five miles out of the steamer lane, a bare two miles off the rock-strewn shore...
...stepped out the stage door and into his waiting limousine. He was not stepping into permanent retirement, though French Conductor Charles Munch would have the Boston next season. Said Koussy: "Only now I can do what I want to ... I will conduct when and where I wish." Yelled a crew-cropped Harvard student as he drove away: "Goodbye, Koussy...
...fast was the time of the freshman crew in its Saturday race that it could have easily placed third in the record shattering varsity race. As it was, the '52 oarsmen's 8:54, which set a record for freshman rowing on the Charles, was more than sufficient to beat MIT, their perennial rival by more than a length and a half...
...more proof of Harvard's theoretical superiority is needed, there is the factor that the home crew has a physical advantage, both from knowing its own waters and being spared the ordeal of a long journey...
Bolles, of course, winces when confronted with the fact that his crew will be the odds-on favorite, and hastens to point out the fact that in a crew race anything can happen...