Word: stroke
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...phytochemicals (see below), found in plants ranging from garlic to cabbage to tea leaves, have been shown to help fight disease by preventing the cellular damage caused by chemicals called free radicals. A diet rich in fiber also has been shown to help reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and cancer. Fiber and phytochemicals are a one-two punch that should be reason enough to eat your peas and broccoli...
Utilizing more power per stroke rather than trying to increase the number of strokes per minute, the crew maintained its high energy level and avoided wearing itself down. But despite the comfortable pace, the Crimson’s time lagged behind the Tigers through the first three split-time posts, spaced approximately one-quarter of the course apart...
...settled down in the piece pretty early,” junior stroke Pat Haas said. “We didn’t attack really for the first minute or so of the piece like we really should have. We settled in and the other crews really attacked that first minute...
...really gratifying, especially after our finishes last year against Princeton,” sophomore stroke Sarah Bates said...
Thirty-three people were killed in a shoot-out with army officers in front of the presidential palace. Fourteen more were killed when a mob of angry demonstrators set fire to a gas station. When 30,000 fervent demonstrators descended on the Bolivian capitol—which, in a stroke of tragic irony, is named La paz (“The peace”)—they came with a list of 72 demands on president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The first demand was for him to leave office...