Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Yesterday morning, before several hundred spectators on the banks of the Charles, his powerful Quaker varsity exploded to an early one-length lead over Navy and Harvard, held it throughout the body of the race with a brutally high stroke, and beat down a late Crimson sprint with one of its own to clinch the Adams Cup title for the second consecutive year...
Meanwhile, the Red and Blue was experimenting with a wide stroke range, never dropping below 38, and on one occasion, hitting 47. "Show 'em what a 50 looks like." Nash yelled from the Penn launch at that point, and Quaker stroke Gardner Cadwalader almost...
...Crew is very fickle" said Pennsylvania stroke Gardner Cadwalader with practiced conviction last week. "Last year, we beat Harvard one week and lost to them the next. But I think that this year's shell is made up of more interesting and diverse people than in the past...
...after a stroke effectively removed him from power, he seems to have grown horrified by much of what he had wrought. From his sick room he railed against the strangulating Soviet bureaucracy and denounced the "Russian chauvinism" that he saw crushing the rights of national minorities. In his testament, which has never been published in Russia, he wrote that Stalin "concentrated boundless power in his hands, and I am not certain he can always use this power with sufficient caution." In a final postscript to his will, he vainly pleaded that Stalin be removed as general secretary of the party...
Paul Wunderlich by any other name would be extraordinary, but the fact that in German wunderlich means strange, wondrous, bizarre is a stroke of poetic justice. More elegant than Beardsley, more graphic than Grünewald, more phantasmic than many of the Surrealists, his work is at once sensuous and intellectual, erotic and macabre, pungently realistic and wickedly funny...