Word: rower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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callouses: only way to identify a real rower. The blades leave raw spots on your hands which turn into brown, scaly callouses...
...Veterans Singles includes any rower 60 and over. Tom Crosby, a 87-year old rower, is the oldest Head participant...
...seriously do rowers take their sport? Last year, a Harvard lightweight rower said his year would be a failure if his boat failed to win the Eastern Sprints...
crab: put the blade in the water at other than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water which in turn destroys the rower's rhythm and at worse flips him or her out of the shell...
...seongs -- to ward off disaster and guard the peace. Every Olympian has been invited to contribute a small stone to the base of the totems, but most of the kids chattering back from the stadium were preoccupied with their own spirits. Kimberly Santiago, the 26-year-old, 99-lb. rower ("steerer and yeller") from Monroe, Wis. ("the Swiss cheese capital of the U.S.A."), was typically restrained. "I'm here, I'm here, I'm here," she said...