Word: ruddering
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...this I can give no idea of the tremendous excitement which such races arouse. Their result is always in doubt. A "crab", or still worse, bad coxing may spell disaster; a dogged stroke in the boat ahead may stave off defeat with the enemy prow hanging above his rudder...
...crew coxswain is a wizened creature, pale and weak from worry and reducing. All he needs is a shrill voice and a pair of skinny hands to work the rudder. Yet it is he who gives commands to the eight hulking beasts ahead of him. St. Bonaventure College plays football with a coxswain instead of a quarterback. Francis Flynn badgered and generalled ten great brutes to a 57-0 victory over Alfred. Despairing of their clumsy, earnest efforts, he himself carried the ball 310 yards, once for 93 and touchdown. He is a quarterback, captain of the eleven, weighs...
...other important control is the rudder bar, across the cockpit floor, with pedals on each end. To turn the airplane to the right, press on the right pedal; to the left, on the left. Because the whirling of the propeller forces an airplane to the left, an adjustable device has been invented to keep sufficient pressure on the right rudder-pedal to maintain a straight course. But, even with his rudder out of commission, a skilled pilot can manage his plane with his joy stick alone...
...Sainte Marie, ice-breaking car ferry, tucked up her gear last week, flirted a rudder at the mush of ice coming down St. Mary's River from Lake Superior, and swaggered back to her winter's work of hauling railroad cars across the Strait of Mackinac. Under her Captain F. A. Bailey and with the aid of tugs she had broken up the river ice and thus released the worst traffic jam in Great Lakes' shipping history...
...flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs in plaster. With neither broken leg yet mended, he had fastened clips on his plaster casts to operate the rudder ,bar. After a few trial hops, he had given exhibitions. Then, with his crutches strapped to the fuselage, he had flown 1,100 miles up the wintry Andes to La Paz, Bolivia, and back. After that he flew 730 miles right over the Andes, over 18,000-foot crags, snowy "saddles...