Word: stroke
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...Valenti, who died Thursday at 85 from complications of a stroke, seemed a good fit for that antique era. A hardscrabble Texas kid who at 14 had worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington...
...attack was a brilliant tactical stroke, but it sealed the fate of the attackers. The survivors responded with all-out war. In July 1624, some 800 Indian warriors risked a two-day battle with 60 armored and well-armed colonists and lost. Twenty years later, Opechancanough, nearly a century old, was captured and shot in the back in a Jamestown jail. This too set a pattern: of conflict and expulsion, which lasted until the last Indians were beaten and settled on reservations in the late 19th century...
...thought they were going to be really quick off the line,” said junior and varsity stroke George Kitovitz, describing how Princeton initially got a few seats...
...Bulldogs with its strong final push, but eventually fell five seconds short. “[To improve], it’s mostly about attacking the first 1000 a little more,” Shaker said. “We need to find that really great rhythm from the first stroke in the race.” After dominating Columbia last weekend, the crew is anxious to continue finding more and more speed in the weeks to come. LIGHTWEIGHTS As expected, the Black and White lightweights thoroughly dominated MIT on the Charles on Saturday. It was not just the three victories...
...different experience for McDaniel to be rowing on the opposite side to his erstwhile Crimson teammates, but a fun one, he said. Competing against Kosmicki in particular, who stroked Harvard’s varsity eight after his own tenure in stroke seat finished, he mentioned, added an extra, friendly incentive to win as well...