Word: oarsman
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drive: ability foreign to people from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Antarctica. This part of the stroke is when the blade is in the water. The drive pulls the boat through the water as the oarsman pulls the blade through the water...
catch a crab: (King, Alaskan King, legs of) An oarsman catches a crab when his oar hits water on the recovery, knocking the handle back into his body. At times, the shock can be violent enough to throw an oarsman from the boat in which case he may get "sharked" (sharking is usually fatal to the race...
...worry," one oarsman confided to a bystander after the game had broken up. "We're going to imtimidate Syracuse with the height of our basketball...
Others believe the race is a very serious matter. "We came here to race," said a University of Wisconsin oarsman. "It's one of the few chances for us to get any real competition...
Jerry Dietz of the New York Athletic Club narrowly defeated Harvardian Greg Stone in the elite singles competition, an affair in which Stone's mentor, Coach Parker, also participated. Stone and Tom Wood earlier that day placed second ahead of Dietz and Larry Klecatsky, both leading American oarsman, in the double sculls, which was won by Riverside Boat Club...