Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaning so far forward between the microphones that the public-address system lost his voice. He spoke of patriotism, looked around for Old Glory, couldn't locate it, and went on in pantomime, holding high and waving an imaginary flag standard. Repeatedly, he used a sort of breast-stroke-like gesture that has come to be known to newsmen as "parting the waters...
...older: it now averages 62, a fairly advanced age for a group that claims to represent the world's future. (Communist China's Politburo is even more decrepit: its average age is 65.) Former Member of the Secretariat Frol Kozlov, 55, was not on hand; the severe stroke he suffered last spring had dropped him from the front rank. Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 61, the victim of a kidney or liver ailment late last year, was back at the stand, invigorated, no doubt, by the heady air he had whipped up with his ideological attack on Peking last month...
...Stroke Geoff Picard had hoped to stay even with the Tigers at the start and pull ahead, if possible, in the latter half of the race. But Princeton fell behind from the very beginning, and M.I.T., despite its very high stroke, was never in the race and finished five lengths behind the Crimson...
Coach Fred Cabot's varsity lightweight victory over Navy was no less impressive. Stroke Galen Brewster's crew got off to a fast start and managed to win by nearly four lengths while rowing the body of the race at a 32-33 beat, relatively low for 2000 meters...
...varsity can make the higher stroke work, it should be able to take off faster than it did against Brown. Always a good long distance crew, the Crimson will find out Saturday if it can attain top speed over the short Sprint and Olympic course...