Word: woodeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost carded another eagle on the par-five fourth. His five wood to the green flew long and was bunkered, but he almost holed the explosion shot coming back. He settled for a par after missing a tap-in for a birdie...
...Calvin Coolidge used it for the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which condemned war as a means of settling international disputes. The table is a favorite piece of the President's. "Solid - it gives the impression of strength," he once explained to a guest, rapping the dark wood. Dining-room chairs were placed behind the table, and the scene...
...Best American Short Stories 1978 is the first edition in 37 years not edited by Martha Foley, who died in 1977. The final selections were made by Solotaroff. It is an outstanding collection with at least two stories that continue to reverberate: Leslie Epstein's Skaters on Wood, a startling tale about Polish Jews staging Macbeth before being rounded up by the Nazis; and Gilbert Sorrentino's Decades, a piece of superbly controlled drollery about a blue-collar New Yorker on the fringes of literary culture...
...race itself is a catharsis for all this tension. Boats begin from a dead standstill, and are quickly accelerated by short, fast strokes. The frenzy of those first few seconds is more than psychological--an oarsman must pull two square feet of wood through ten feet of water and return his oar for another stroke, all in a little more than one second. Several strokes into the race, the speed of rowing settles slightly, and the oarsman must precisely time his movements, keep the three-foot wide keel balanced, and maintain maximum power for some 200 additional strokes...
Summing up the race, and the season. Doug Wood spoke for the whole crew: "At that point, there is nothing better than winning--feeling a certain cameraderic. Your hard work is finally, finally through. Now you can go back and celebrate." Judging by its record, the Harvard Crew should be doing a lot of celebrating this year...