Word: rusted
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While the effects manifested themselves in a sluggish start, in the long term it didn’t seem to matter. Harvard took a couple weeks to shake off dry-season rust before winning the Truxtun Umstead, a major intersectional regatta, securing a berth in the 2006 New England Sloops Championships and taking the top co-ed ranking in the nation...
Harvard brought its record back to .500 with a busy first week of April. The team swept twinbills from Rhode Island and Quinnipiac, rounding into the top form conspicuously absent during its rust-plagued start in March...
Junior Rodney Byrnes, sidelined in 2004 for academic reasons, showed no signs of rust in his homecoming, recording four catches for 94 yards and a touchdown. He also returned the day’s opening kickoff 42 yards to set up the opening score...
...assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust-red scar, and no green or gray," he said--he became a lifelong champion of nonproliferation...
Harvard boasts a league-second-best .957 fielding percentage, and has shaken off the defensive rust that plagued it early in the season. Dartmouth lags not far behind with a .953 fielding percentage, though, and since every run will take on greater importance this weekend, the defense is more important than ever...