Word: oar
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...America, aboard one of three ships that would land at Jamestown, one passenger seemed to grate on the rest like a splintered oar. He was a stocky, sawed-off stub of a man; a seasoned war fighter with a valiant past he seldom tired of highlighting; an unconscionable braggart of modest means who resented the blue bloods among the group; a bigmouthed know-it-all with a sanctimonious air and little or no regard for decorum. His name was John Smith...
...spite of being one oar down and having the extra dead weight to be carried by the other seven oarsmen, though, the boat still held its own and crossed the finish line nine seconds behind the Bears with a time...
...third varsity appeared to be doing well in the first half of their race, but fate was against them, and a broken oar with 700 meters to go held them back to a second-place finish...
...conditions were terrible, and there was an enormous headwind, which meant the boat was copping a bit of flak,” said sophomore Tom Fleming, the five-seat whose oar was lost. “Around the 1000-meter mark, as we started to push ahead of Brown, I noticed that bits were falling off my blade. I managed to take about another 10 to 15 strokes before, unfortunately, the blade simply broke in two because of the pressure forced on the oar without something to leverage against...
...devised plans, such as November teach-ins and a December rally, to support several Latino employees of Harvard who claimed they were notified last month that they would be laid off in January. A flyer written by one of the affected employees alleged that the Office of Animal Resources (OAR) said it would fire four Latino animal technicians in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB). The flyer also alleged that OAR has a “history of hostility...towards Latino workers.” At last night’s meeting—the second...