Word: weather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parring the playoff hole under pressure-packed conditions in bad weather shows what kind of mettle he has as a golfer," junior co-captain Kaj Vazales said of his teammate...
...leisurely workout on your own time, the Charles River Canoe and Kayak (across from Harvard Stadium on Soldiers Field Road; 462-2513; Saturday and Sunday weather permitting 10 a.m. to dusk; canoes: $9 per hour, single kayaks: $10/hr, double kayaks: $12 per hour and rowboats: $10 per hour) rents canoes, single kayaks, two person kayaks, and rowboats. Tone your arms and abs and get ready for House IM crew this spring. No experience necessary...
There's nothing quite like sports to bring our entire campus together. The problem, however, is that Harvard students are notorious for being fair-weather fans. We ignore our losing teams and only take notice of our winning teams after they've accomplished a major feat on the national scale. Indeed, with the exception of certain Yale football and Princeton basketball rivalries, our bleachers usually don't need much cleaning...
What if the Channel weather had not abated on June 6? World War II chronicler and Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose argues that without air cover and paratrooper support, the first waves of Allied troops would have been incapable of fighting. Eisenhower could not have withdrawn them. Hitler could have held his positions, and Operation Overlord, the master plan for reconquering Europe, would have disintegrated. Ike would have lost his job, the Churchill government could have fallen, and President Franklin Roosevelt might have failed in his bid for a fourth term...
...then the hurricane took that sudden turn. The bad weather started pounding us Tuesday night. Waves were completely covering the boat, and we were pitching 46[degrees]. By early Wednesday, it started getting really bad. We were in seas of 45-to-55-plus ft., much bigger than anything I'd ever seen. We began getting into real trouble about 3 in the morning, when we started taking on water at the rudder assembly faster than our pumps could keep...