Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sleepy, nervous "good mornings" echo in the strangely quiet locker room, and you steel yourself for the still-cold March air over the river. The rest of your crew arrives and the coxswain organizes you for taking out the shell: Four-man shells today. Your bare feet welcome the warmth of the sun-bathed dock, and the boat slides into the water easily...
...Beanpot. Those two Mondays in February when everybody who had said, "No way, anything can't happen in the Beanpot" had to eat their hockey pucks after the Crimson shell-shocked Northeastern and Boston College, two of the East's best, in consecutive weeks. All right, so "anything" didn't happen. Five elephants didn't sing the national anthem. But Harvard won the Beanpot. That's not just anything, that's something. West of Route 128, something really special...
Despite the incredible good fortune, an early jump on the season does have its drawbacks. Who really wants to spend their mornings and/or afternoons huddled miserably in a wobbly shell over the repugnant Charles working up a drenching sweat in the cold drizzling rain? The crew team does, that's who, and they'll be the first to tell...
Then came the final scene: Jean Harris, primly clad in a suede jacket and brown skirt, her hair held back by a tortoise shell band, was led in, staring straight ahead. Each day of the ordeal seemed to have shriveled her a bit more. The jurors, stone faced and grim, did not look at her, seated at the defense table, as they filed in. "I understand the jurors have arrived at a verdict," said Judge Leggett. Von Glahn rose and nodded yes. The clerk asked: "How do you find the defendant, Jean Harris, on the first count of second-degree...
Columbia's launch, originally scheduled for March 1979, was delayed in part for replacement of thousands of heat-resistant tiles, which are attached to its aluminum shell to keep the shuttle from burning up on reentry. It has also been plagued by trouble in its complex engines, which burn fuel at 6,000° C, hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore...