Word: stopwatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the last two minutes that the stroke oar alters his stopwatch planning to fit the situation. Then, if he is behind, he stakes everything on a final sprint to the finish. This is the most crucial and exciting part of the race, for the oarsmen are already dead tired, and a higher stroke increases the chance of a mistake...
...riverside spectator, watching a crew race means listening to a loudspeaker for eight minutes and then watching the last two hundred yards of a race; for the coach, it means following directly behind one's pupils, anxiously peering at a stopwatch and observing with horror that Number Three is a little late on his catch...
Stack got off to a poor start. Kiphuth turned away from the pool as Verdeur began his laps. Reid finished up the race and Kiphuth looked at the stopwatch, laughed, and said to those next to him, "we better leave after that." The announcer informed the assembled multitude that, although the time was excellent, "it didn't quite break the world record...
...tall (6 ft.) and thin (146 Ibs.), like the hand of a stopwatch. His toothpick legs must be pampered; he ran seven races in two days last year and pulled a hamstring muscle. Although a chronic worrywart, Patton usually manages to control his worrying. In his crowded schedule there are special times for fretting, just as there are set times to go to classes at the University of Southern California and a set time to be home for dinner (he has a wife and two-year-old daughter). The proof of Patton's iron control under pressure...
André quickly learned the tricks of composing with a stopwatch in his hand. Last year, he got his first big breaks: scoring music for The Hucksters, playing piano in Frank Sinatra's It Happened in Brooklyn...