Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's lightweight crew will be rowing up the Charles with a contingent from Williams. The story of the Williams crew is very interesting. There is no body of water near Williams on which the crew can practice so they have to row on the streets of Williamstown. The shell is fully equipped with directional signals and must obey all the conventional traffic rules...
...background, white-gloved waiters are busily setting out plates of oysters on the half shell when the guest of honor, tiny Rene Levesque from Quebec, strides in searching for hands. Bleary Canadian reporters tumble in behind...
...freshman heavies enjoyed the lone success of the day with a thrilling comeback victory over the Yale freshmen. After carrying a six-seat lead through the middle section of the contest, the Radcliffe eight caught a boat-stopping crab and dropped three seats behind the Eli shell...
...independentist argument--Levesque objects to the term 'separatist'--begins with the fact that Quebec is a distinct French and Catholic cultural entity or nation within Canada. It is a culture with a unique heritage that remains insulated from North American mass culture by its linguistic shell. The protection of this culture, and of the French language which serves as its medium, is understandably a major concern for Quebeckers, and for Prime Minister Levesque...
...Gordie Gardiner caught his blade on the rough water churned by a strong tail-wind. The collision jarred Gardiner's oar out of his hand and the entire boat stopped rowing while the bowman, Paul Templeton, handed Gardiner's oar back to him. By the time Harvard got their shell back up to top gear, Brown had sliced the lead to one-quarter of a length. That was as close as the Bruins got. What George Aitken called "some of the best rowing we've done," 40 strokes perminute, stretched the lead quickly to one-half of a length, then...