Word: tailwind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rebounding from last week's defeat at the hands of Boston University, the lights came back, aided by a tailwind and a strong downstream current, to cross the finish line in a strong 5:22.0, a convincing 5.4 seconds before Williams, their closest competitor...
After watching their opponent's shell crash into a sailboat and send two sailors sprawling into the Charles, the Radcliffe lightweight crew survived a strong tailwind, sleet, an abbreviated course, a busted rigger and numbing cold only to lose narrowly to the UNH heavyweight varsity Saturday morning...
While we suspend disbelief, we also hold back cynicism. We glide in Bridy's tailwind, tramp behind Al and Birdy through a series of touching, painful and often hilarious boyhood adventures, and we dodge mines and shells with Al as he takes on the Germans. Along the way, Al discovers that his muscle is a front hiding a fearful but honest man-boy. Birdy confronts his birdness and slowly lets it migrate from...
...heavies started quickly, grabbing a length's lead by the 500-meter mark. There, a quartering tailwind drove the race close to the Cambridge riverbank, and bowman Ruth Colker lost half of her oarblade on mooring buoy...
...Harvard varsity lightweights avenged last year's man overboard loss to Navy as John Higginson's eight cruised home with its twelfth Haines Cup in 13 years, stroking through the Midshipmen and the UMass heavies on a fast, tailwind-aided Charles River on Saturday...