Word: crab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...village. Hooligans tore his cottage apart. By the summer of 1961, he had had enough. He fled to a stony, wave-swept reef seven miles offshore known as Les Ecrehous (the Rocky Islets). On his barren refuge, no larger than a football field, he learned to subsist on lobster, crab and boiled sea lettuce, plus gifts brought by curiosity- seeking tourists. "Only by going away could I clear my name," he would tell them. "I was sure the terrible attacks would continue and my innocence would be recognized...
...week in his laboratory. On his periodic field trips he is so impatient to peer into the dredges to see what they have brought up from the sea bottom that he sometimes bumps heads with his fellow scientists. Occasionally Hirohito reaches into a dredge and gets nipped by a crab...
...CRAB MEAT...
...CRAB MEAT...
...buddies went to make-out parties, the guy who couldn't sit still or get roaring drunk with T-Bone LaCour every Friday night when I was 13 because my parents and I went to see, but not understand, the Florida Symphony, me, the Asst. Editor of the Sand Crab who wrote the lead story on "Homecoming" (the tag was," ... and the easy, floating ride home. Homecoming"), me, the mumbler, trip on girls' toes spratfalling yahoo who entered the polevault once that spring and cleared nine feet coming down, joints locked, like a pinwheeling walking stick, landing thirty feet beyond...