Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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lightweight: a shell with a specific weight limit. For men, the boat must average 150 pounds per oarsman. For women, the average must be 129.5 pounds...
Henley: the most important regatta in the world each year. Held outside of London at Henley-on-Thames, the event pits the best shells in the world against each other. The Harvard heavy-weight crew won the Grand Challenge Cup in July, beating Princeton in the final to claim the mythical world university championship...
coxswain (cox): the little person in the rear of the shell. He or she steers the shell, keeps the rowers informed of their progress in the race, and controls the pace of the shewll by calling for power strokes and the sprint at the end. Coxswains must weight at least 99 pounds (for women--125 pounds for men). If they are less than that, sand bags are carried to bring the shell's weight up to that standard...
Rude and Smooth: 1974-'75 Harvard heavy weight crew that won two national titles. So-called because of their rude behavior, shouting epithets at other boats as they put them away in the sprint at the end of the race, and smooth technique...
...calorie countdown on Cheerios wouldn't count down quite so far if you added Coke--it would jump from 160 with half a cup of milk to 224 with a can of Classic. But this would present no problem for the weight conscious--Diet Coke could stand in for skim milk...