Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...their shrewdest and perhaps most effective single stroke of the campaign, Nixon and Agnew disowned Goodell ?loudly. Their purpose was to get liberals to switch from Ottinger to Goodell in sufficient numbers to defeat the Democrat. It worked exactly that way. Early polls showed Goodell with about 15% of the vote. The excitement caused by his feud with Agnew raised that figure ultimately to 24% in the election. Buckley got 39%, just two points more than Ottinger...
...long, long time," Globe staff writer John Ahern prophesied. But the Quaker "dynasty" was to last only a week. Breaking out even with Penn off the start at the Eastern Sprints, the Crimson moved out steadily during the second 500 meters of the race, held off Penn's high stroke, and finished nearly a length in front. Suddenly, the championship issue had been clouded again, and due to Harvard's insistence upon racing at New London instead of Syracuse, it was never to be resolved formally, except by Whall and the Quakers...
Unused to rowing in a bow-to-bow race, Penn desperately tried to break Harvard by means of an unusually high stroke count. It had worked at Philadelphia and it had worked at Cambridge. And in each case the Quakers had been ahead safely enough so that if the rapid fluctuation in cadence backfired, it had a comfortable lead to fall back upon...
...came down to the fact that we knew that no crew can row a 48 down the course that early in the season without paying for it later in the race," Evan feels. When Penn was ahead, it wouldn't hurt them to jump the stroke. When it was bow-to-bow, it was fatal...
...very tempting to give one stroke of the pen for each of the millions of people that America has killed or starved or maimed, or the thousands of rivers that it has polluted, and reduce it all to a table or graph and then say, "Look...