Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was a really wicked crosswind and during the warm-up [right before the race] and it felt sloppy," stroke Martha Welch said. "We had a really hard time getting on the stake boat and we were still sculling when they started to call for the start...
...Crimson first-boat combination--coxswain Andy Cameron, stroke David Obdura, seven-seat Greg Belmont, Davis, five-seat John Leete, four-seat Gerald Cardinale, Marple, two-seat Farzad Mostashari and bow John Velyvis--featured only three racers off last year's varsity eight, and had spent little time practicing as a unit...
...swim marked the fourth time in the past twomonths that Berkoff has broken the American recordin the 100 backstroke. Also, for the first timesince the institution of the butterfly as anofficial stroke in 1958, the winning NCAAbackstroke time was faster that the first-placetime in the butterfly race...
...tutor would be available to help him through the difficult academic times ahead. "I knew I wasn't no A student," explains Reggie. For the Ford family, it was a shining moment. They are poor. Reggie's mother is disabled from a car accident, his father from a stroke. Reggie was the first member of his family to go to college...
Shackled by a national state of emergency and pinned under the bullying, finger-wagging rule of State President P.W. Botha, South Africa has long lain at the edge of despotism. Last week Botha pushed it over the line. Declaring himself fully recovered from the stroke he suffered in January, he reclaimed his position as head of state, in defiance of resolutions by the National Party's parliamentary and provincial organizations. Since he resigned as leader of the party last month and is not a member of Parliament or the . Cabinet, the chief executive is now accountable...