Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...darkness tenderly drapes itself over Delaware Bay, a soft breeze breaks the lingering heat of a blistering summer...
...Delaware Bay's prime breeding beaches are also a burial ground. Thousands of the crabs lie dead, overturned by breaking waves, their hollow shells littering the sand like the discarded helmets of a defeated German battalion. Just yards away, oblivious to the noxious stench of rotting crabs, migratory shorebirds feast on exposed crab eggs, consuming about 100 tons in just a few weeks...
Theresa Tierney, sweating from her early-morning walk on the beach, carefully treads past the mating crabs. Each summer Tierney and her family trade the Philadelphia heat for a bay-front seat at crab-mating time. As a live crab trundles by her feet, she snatches it up by its spiny tail to reveal an underbelly of writhing legs and pulsing book gills. Despite years of such intimate contact with the crabs, she is still unable to unlock one vital secret. Murmurs a slightly embarrassed Tierney: "I can't even tell what sex it is." Her husband Matt...
...appears he'll pay for it the rest of his life. The feeding frenzy--by the press, elected officials in the Bay State and the public at-large--has been incredible. And many of those attacking Dukakis now (the Boston Globe and the state's democratic leadership spring to mind) were among his most vocal supporters just 12 short months...
...Bay State betting plan is in the very earliest planning stages right now, but a loud voice of protest has been raised already by that bastion of pure, untampered athleticism, the National Football League...