Word: rows
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...good crew takes away things from both a good and a bad race," Simmons said. "What we learned is that we row really poorly when we don't row efficiently...
...study defines binge drinking as five drinks in a row by men and four by women in the two weeks before the survey...
Dorothy Parker wanted to call her (unwritten) autobiography Mongrel, presumably reflecting her Wasp-Jewish heritage. Douglas applies the word to the polyglot nature of the new culture, which was profoundly influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Writers like Langston Hughes who settled in and around Strivers Row in Upper Manhattan gave distinctive voice to the aspirations of American blacks. "Aframerican" musicians like Duke Ellington entertained white audiences at Harlem's Cotton Club with an exotic new idiom, jazz, that became one of America's enduring gifts to the world...
...Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens today issued a highly unusual essay asking judges across the country to study whether executing prisoners who have spent long periods on death row violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Stevens made the request in a two-page supplement to the court's unanimous rejection of Texas killer Clarence Allen Lackey's death penalty appeal. Lackey's attorney argued that executing him after 17 years on death row amounted tocruel and unusual punishment, in part because his prolonged imprisonment had eliminated the possibility that executing him would accomplish retribution or serve...
...rest. The Brown heavyweight crew captured everything in sight last season. The Bears won at Eastern Sprints, Nationals and the Henley Regatta in England. Adding insult to injury, Brown blew out Harvard--by more than seven seconds--in a dual meet for the second year in a row...