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Word: stroke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually lost a little bit off the start," stroke Matt Emans said. "They had a quicker start than...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Men's Heavyweight Crew Falls | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...program) for no other reason than to borrow from Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By the time the play ends with a quote from The Waste Land, despite its near-irrelevance to what has come before, we are not surprised; the temptation to play with his literary knowledge, and stroke the audience by allowing it to recognize his references, is evidently too great to resist...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Generals Anxiety | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

Despite its gaudy record over the last couple of years, Brown appeared unprepared for the conditions that Harvard captain Elijah White termed "biblical." Headwinds were strong enough to knock a full minute off the two boat's expected times. Waves crashed over the big boat every third or fourth stroke. Conditions were so bad that B.U. and Northeastern decided to postpone their race until Tuesday...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Trounces Brown in Upset | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...seemed like everyone in the boat gothammered by a wave every stroke that we took,"stroke Chris Dewing said...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Trounces Brown in Upset | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...Fillipine] catch the crab out of thecorner of my eye," stroke Chris Dewing said. "Iyelled at [cox] Todd Kristol--who I knew couldn'tsee anything--'Let's go!' I think everyone justrealized all at once that we were suddenly ahead...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Trounces Brown in Upset | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

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