Word: rows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home in Northwest Washington. He does exercises to strengthen his back, which once afflicted him so sorely that his wife Grace had to tie his shoes. An unimposing black Ford reaches the house in time to get him to his office on the State Department's seventh-floor "mahogany row" at 6 on some mornings, 7 at the latest. By the time Vance arrives, two of his special assistants have already spent an hour poring over diplomatic cables, newspaper clippings and study papers for the day's meetings. Vance reads their selection in half an hour...
...wander around some more, waiting for the order to line up and head out. Beyond a three-headed effigy with the names Bakke, Vorster and Carter pinned on it, you spot a row of hard blue hats, glistening in the sun. You recall anti-war rallies in the '60s--when hard-hats with American flag-pins and tatooed, bulging arms did their patriotic bit for Uncle Sam--and a surge of adrenalin runs up your back. There's always that possibility, in a large demonstration...
Much of the crew's difficulty stems from the departure of half of last year's varsity and the failure of last year's small freshmen boats to provide more than one replacement, Kevin Gaut, who will row at number two tomorrow...
Chapman also said Higginson didn't seem ready to use the ice-free Charles as soon as possible after the winter. "Last month Harry Parker went out and beat the ice into submission with his launch for three days, four hours a day. Then Harry had the heavyweights rowing three times on the weekend and seat-racing by Monday. We, on the other hand, didn't row on the water during the weekend and John didn't have his launch ready and out on the water until Wednesday. We could have taken advantage of the water more quickly...
...DeVore." The overflow crowd in Science Center C was watching on a live video system, not "watching on video tape." And the ovation DeVore received was not a "standing" one, to the best of my recollection and that of a friend, both of us seated in the very last row of Science Center...