Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spracklin taught Butt an approach to familiarizing his crew with the stroke which maximized the work done by the oar blade in the water based on this principle: If a blade is forced into the water hard enough, Spracklin said, a mound of water forms in front of the blade that exerts a backwards force on the blade and thereby holds it firmly in the water...
...specific way to row from Spracklin," senior Sam Truslow said. "It was a great new stroke...
...Butt said that he just took a different educational tack, using physics to give the crew a better understanding of how an efficient stroke worked...
Relman addressed the inadequacy of medical insurance coverage, saying "If I were to have a stroke right now...my insurance would run out" because of the costs of long-term care...
...other films, overripe images spilled out of his cornucopia: clowns and courtesans, prelates and zealots, overripe creatures from a fantast's bestiary. At first they looked like outrageous cartoons of sensuality and sacrilege. But long before his death last week at 73, from complications after a stroke, it was clear they were previews of a moral system spun wildly off its axis. For 30 years and more, the word Felliniesque has defined not just the director's work but a style at the peacock end of film, photography, fashion, advertising, high life and street life...