Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A grey Ford whipped along the back-country gravel roads, stirring up a trail of dust. Braking to a stop alongside a flat field, the car's slight and sunburned driver sighted down mile-long rows of tiny green shoots, planted the week before. "Ain't that beautiful...
Inexorably, the Red pincers tightened around Shanghai. Inside the shrinking Nationalist lines, sweating soldiers and coolies dug trenches, strung barbed-wire barricades, sowed "dragon's teeth"-thick rows of sharpened bamboo stakes pointed toward the approaching enemy. If a stand were made at all, it would be made inside...
Princeton arrived on the Charles with a crew which used a style very similar to Bolles' an ideally matched crew superbly conditioned, and trained to stroke identically. Belles, on the other hand, had a varsity weeks behind the Tigers on practice, with a number five oar who takes absolutely no...
But the stroke does not go up or down on the basis of relative position, because a crew rows against the clock until the final half-mile. Bill Curwen, for instance, would never vary more than one stroke from his usual 31 unless his rivals were hull down over the...
They stumbled through alleys and courts littered with tin cans, gritty with cinders and broken glass, past tar-paper shacks and sagging frame and brick houses where rents ranged from $12 to $30 a month. They ducked under clothes drying on lines strung across the alleys. A policeman waved a...