Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disappointed to miss that race against Washington," stroke John Amory said, "since I'm a Seattle native. It also cast a shadow over the tournament for me because we didn't have to deal with the same level of fatigue as the other crews...
Harvard's first boat went out with a stroke rate somewhere between 40 and 42 strokes per minute. Brown began somewhere over 45, a rate which generally lasts about 20 strokes (or 200 meters) into the race at which point each team settles at around 36. "They were way too high for themselves," first boat coxswain Travis Metz said...
Metz criticized Brown's strategy of keeping its stroke rate so high, saying, "Sometimes you have to take the stroke rate down so that you can go faster. The important thing is efficiency...
...coxswain decides along with the stroke, who rows in the first seat facing the cox, where to keep the stroke rate depending on how the race is going and how the rowers feel. In Saturday's race, Hugh Evans rowed portside stroke. The stroke has to be smart, in order to sense when members of the boat can be pushed, and also aggressive enough to know when they must be pushed...
...seven, he would see psychoanalytic patients from eight to twelve. Dinner was punctually at one: at the stroke of the clock, the household assembled around the dining-room table; Freud appeared from his study, his wife sat down facing him at the other end, and the maid materialized, bearing the soup tureen. Then came a walk to restore the circulation, perhaps to deliver proofs or buy cigars. Consultations were at three, and after that, he saw more analytic patients, often until nine in the evening. Then came supper, sometimes a short game of cards with his sister-in-law Minna...