Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feelings are running high. An intense rivalry has developed between the two schools in the last year. At Penn, Psychological warfare, a brutal training program, and a wave of rowing contraptions like "The Wizard," a shell electronically wired to indicate how much strength each oarsman is applying on each stroke, are all aimed at one thing: beating Harvard...
...Keefe's medal-winning 76 led the way as the Harvard golf team gained an eight-stroke victory in the Greater Boston Intercollegiate Tournament at the Concord Country Club yesterday...
...Crimson varsity moved out to a three-seat lead after the first 30 strokes. As the stroke settled from a 41 to a 37, and ten strokes later to a 33, Harvard pulled away another length-and-a-half...
...help F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes stabilize the industry's chaotic oil prices by pool-buying arrangements-only to find himself and other oilmen convicted on antitrust charges four years later when the Government decided they'd gone too far; of a stroke; in Summit...
...adviser named Popkins, who is usually dressed in a bathrobe and is really a Russian in disguise. The plot revolves around Frankenstein's attempts to sell the country out piecemeal to the Communists. The play ends happily when That Man dies of what looks like a stroke (actually, the deed is done by a haberdasher named Falseman who wants to be President...