Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stiff Wind...
Dartmouth opened the scoring mid-way through the first half. With a stiff wind at their backs the visitors were able to keep play deep in Harvard's territory, where they finally capitalized on a two-on-one situation to score a try, giving them a 4-0 half-time lead...
...determining factor in the second period was Harvard's inability to take advantage of the wind as Dartmouth had done in the first half...
...Blumenthal still faces an uncertain future in the Administration. His brilliance must now compete not only with a disapproving White House staff but with the unsubtle Strauss, a man with whom he has been at odds. Some insiders thought that the Secretary was, in fact, twisting slowly in the wind...
...Gordie Gardiner caught his blade on the rough water churned by a strong tail-wind. The collision jarred Gardiner's oar out of his hand and the entire boat stopped rowing while the bowman, Paul Templeton, handed Gardiner's oar back to him. By the time Harvard got their shell back up to top gear, Brown had sliced the lead to one-quarter of a length. That was as close as the Bruins got. What George Aitken called "some of the best rowing we've done," 40 strokes perminute, stretched the lead quickly to one-half of a length, then...