Word: crab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antitank Guns. Moving onto Georges Bank off Cape Cod and the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, proliferating Russian trawlers snag American nets, ram smaller boats in the fog and often force fishermen right off the banks; in Alaska, fishermen recently became so furious about Russian trawlers pulling their crab pots that they began ordering antitank guns to mount on their decks, were dissuaded only by a flying visit from Alaska Governor William...
Today a comfortable man in his mid-fifties, Figueres has travelled far from the career in medicine that his father had planned for him. Walking with him on a fall afternoon, he stops to examine and collect crab apples; he is a farmer. Chatting with him over coffee, he excuses himself to speak to Washington and Caracas; he is a statesman. Probing him on South American politics, he predicts violent change; he is a revolutionary...
...Rinehart & Winston has put out The Madison Avenue Cookbook "for people who can't cook and don't want other people to know it." It advises readers to boast that they can "cook the pans off practically everybody" and contains recipes for "Status Stew" and "Stuffed Softsell Crab." Also in bookshops is something called Why Cook: 218 Recipes by One Who Can't, and another called The I Hate to Cook Book, with such slothful recipes as "Chilly Night Chili," "Simpleburgers," and "Beetniks." High Altitude. In the search for negotiable gimmicks, writers are turning out books specializing...
...Cadillac hearse, 4) waylaid by a sinister Chinese cutie, 5) smershed by the six-gun of a sneaky geologist. 007 senses that somebody is out to get him. Could it be the mysterious Doctor No, the mad scientist who lives in a mountain of bird droppings on Crab Key? 007 paddles over to have a look around. On the beach he meets Ursula Andress, a skindiver who seems to wear her air tanks in front, but before 007 can find time to examine the lady's apparatus the villain appears...
...which sends out rich chords of radio waves, is not a chief attraction. The astronomers' keenest interest is focused on much more distant space, from which the waves bring news of strange occurrences. The third strongest single source in the sky is a famous astronomical object, the Crab Nebula, the turbulent, gaseous wreck of a star that turned into a supernova and blew itself to shreds on July 11, 1054 A.D.-an event that was duly recorded by Chinese astronomers. After 908 years, the Crab's gases are still churning violently, and as the electrons that they contain...