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Indeed, Harvard went at it like a 2000-meter race throughout, settling at a torrid cadence of 34 strokes per minute for the duration. Yale, sporting a fancy new carbon shell made in England (that weighs 50-60 pounds less than conventional fiberglass boats), never could get above 32 strokes at any one stage of the encounter...
...Crimson eight (bow Dave Lakhdir, Don Harting, Bill Chapman, Jeff Cooley, John Pickering, Karl Forsgaard, Jim Russell, Cunningham and cox Peter Cordeiro) matched the Tigers' 36-stroke cadence by settling at 35 strokes to set a torrid initial pace that left Yale embarrassingly behind...
Fitzgibbons resumed his torrid pace coming in. On the second he missed a five-foot birdie putt. On number four he floated an eight-iron within a yard of the flagstick for a cast iron birdie. His third birdie of the day came on the seventh where he hit a wedge that touched down like a butterfly with sore legs six inches from...
Call it only a college romance if you like but for me it was a torrid love affair. For four years you led me around--the anticipation, the sudden passes, the excitement, and then the score...
...unlike most of the schlocky bestselling novels of recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness of this double understanding in these novels is in the way real people can be assigned cheaply torrid love lives with little chance of legal redress...