Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard took first place in all the freestyle events. Sophomore Stacie Duncan won the 1000 and 500, while teammate Lynn Kelley edged out her opponents in the 200. Lisa Reed rounded out the Crimson's success in the stroke with a victory...
Havel and company had been emboldened by the response to their call for a two-hour strike last Monday. At the stroke of noon, millions of workers and students took to the streets, shutting down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was the astounding turnout a sharp rebuke to the country's leaders, but it was a warning that a few cosmetic changes within the Politburo would not satisfy the demands for a more democratic system...
Despite being upset in a close 57-56 meet at Columbia over the weekend, the Crimson (2-1) rebounded and dominated every stroke this time around. The lopsided victory was more of a competition between Harvard swimmers than a meet against the Bruins...
...finishers for the Crimson included Stacie Duncan in the 1000 freestyle, Sheila Findley in the 100 and 200 backstroke, Co-Captain Mia Costello in the 100 and 200 breast-stroke and Co-Captain Jenny Meyer in the 500 freestyle and 200 individual medley...
...feeling slightly ridiculous as I sit on a dock that juts into an artificial lagoon and stroke a dolphin's nose with my feet. The stroking is a handshake of sorts, a way of introducing me and four other people at the Hyatt Waikoloa in Hawaii to the dolphins with whom we will be swimming. We are the latest of roughly 15,000 customers who have paid $55 for half-hour frolics with six dolphins since the Hyatt program began a year ago. The enterprise, one of four operating in the U.S., is so popular that spots have...