Word: stroke
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...local competition. At that point, however, I was still a nonbeliever, consoling myself with the delusion that my budding love of air guitar was of the ironic sort.I was forced to abandon this stance after a particularly aggressive attempt to perfect my “power windmill” stroke. Sustaining air-induced injuries to my neck and strumming arm taught me that, though the tongue begins very much in the cheek of every air guitarist, it is not long before that tongue is bared Gene Simmons-style and lolling about for all to see. “It?...
...dropped off the start,” added junior and varsity stroke George Kitovitz. “The weather was awful. But we kept the pressure on them, and I guess they just couldn’t keep up with us and gradually dropped back...
...Harvard was racing third-ranked Brown for the Stein Cup, which the Bears won last year, breaking the Crimson’s five-year hold on it. The Harvard oarsmen had to contend not only with their human opponents, though, but with a headwind that battled them fiercely every stroke...
...first half of the race definitely had the worst conditions, and it took us a little while to settle into it,” Lin said. “Brown handled it better than we did and kept their stroke rating up higher than ours, and after the first [25 strokes], they were about a length...
...captain Jennifer Chung said. “We’re trying a lot of new things this year, especially in the first varsity eight—different people trying new seats that they are not used to.”This flexibility of people, positions, and stroke combination on the boat is difficult to get used to.But the team sees this as a process; these are the steps necessary to finding the most speed for its first varsity eight, to get the fastest team possible come championship time at the IRAs.“I think we?...