Word: oared
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...ghost of Tiresias told Ulysses to carry an oar upon his shoulder and walk inland until he met a traveler who did not know what an oar was. Thus Ulysses, exhausted by the sea, would recognize that he was safely home...
Some day, possibly, the American racial odyssey will end, and racial hatred, like the oar, will be an item of bafflement and curiosity: What was the point of all that, anyway? Why was it so fierce, so enduring...
...competitor reportedly fell out of his seat when his oar got snagged on his own boat. The hapless athlete did, however, resume his place, and completed the race...
...coach, Harry Parker can only sit and watch and wait, helpless on the sidelines. For the individual oarsmen, they can only grip their oar a little tighter, push their pain tolerance a little higher, and cock their ear a little closer to the cox screaming signals in front of them. And hope, hope that somehow all their training and hard work will help them jell together as a unit, enough to outdistance the other crews...
...Graves stroked the U.S. women's eight to a silver-medal finish in the 1975 World Championships in England and manned the six oar in the American boat which captured the bronze medal at Montreal in the 1975 Olympics. She again made the Olympic team in 1980 but did not compete because of President Carter's call for a boycott of the games...