Word: crab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devine see any diminished appetite. Nixon ate his crab claws with gusto as the Sequoia plied the waters of the Potomac. He chewed through a good slice of roast beef, ate carrots and beans, polished the meal off with ice cream...
...that contest, a Harvard oarsman caught a massive crab in the first ten strokes of the race, leaving the Crimson a length behind with the race hardly begun. The Tigers staved off a furious Crimson charge at the finish and held on to win by the narrowest of margins, a scant .2 seconds...
...from the expertise of many leading scientists who, says Ambrosino, "are starving for the opportunity to portray science accurately." In Strange Sleep, a dramatization of the discovery of anesthesia, eminent Bostonian physicians did a remarkably credible job of acting as they portrayed their medical predecessors. Occasionally, as in The Crab Nebula, the program's accuracies are a bit too complex for laymen to follow. But for the most part the shows accomplish their purpose: to stimulate the mind of the curious grownup by raising a new question for every one that they answer...
Once again, Radcliffe had problems with its start. Number-seven woman. Allison Hall caught a crab on the third stroke of the race and a member of the bow four washed out during the ensuing few strokes. Because of the early mishaps, Radcliffe found itself even with B.U. and uncomfortably trailing MIT by two seats ten strokes into the race...
...expected, it was a dull race. What little excitement there was in the contest came during the first ten strokes when Crimson four-man Bob Leahey caught a crab, enabling Navy and St. Catherine's to pull slightly ahead of Harvard...