Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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crab: put the blade in the water at other than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water, which in turn destroys the rower's rhythm and at worst flips him or her out of the shell...
freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
Newell: the Harvard boathouse. Located on the southern bank of the Charles, Newell is the newer boathouse and houses the Harvard crews. Newell has tanks, indoor rowing facilities that simulate on-water conditions for training in winter months...
...formed such peculiar ideas about literary life in New York. All of them were derived from books, about living in cold-water flats with no money and basically being very romantic about deprivation and suffering," he continued. "But now there are very few people who live hand-to-mouth. It's out of style...
...drop their loads right into the ocean. It's like a colossal toilet. Except it doesn't flush. Some of it sinks down to the bottom--where only fish are, anyway--but a whole lot of it doesn't. It just floats around on top of the water and gets sloshed around in the waves until it washes up on the beach...