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Word: crab (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the contest expecting a tight race from Yale's eight, which last week made the finals for the first time in nine years. And tight it was--for half a mile. Yale, down by two seats at that point, hit a rough patch of water, and a minor crab made opened the race up to five seats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Heavyweights Take the Race | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...After the crab, it was a slow walk-away until near the end, and then we just stomped on them" number six George Aitken said last night. "We weren't sure exactly what to expect--they'd been training hard for the last week. I was sort of disappointed in them; at the end we just went for the margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Heavyweights Take the Race | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Radcliffe, ahead by a narrow length at the mile mark, was the beneficiary of a Yale miscue, as Yale's number four oarswoman caught a boat-stopping crab. After that, the J.V. just kept moving out away from the hapless Elis...

Author: By James E. Mcgrath, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Stops Radcliffe Heavies | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...crab grass, dandelions and seed-snatching birds were not enough, America's lawn keepers face a new peril this spring: a small but growing band of "natural" landscapers who scorn the national fetish for meticulously manicured lawns and are letting their yards grow as wild and weedy as nature permits. One such heretic, Donald Hagar of New Berlin, Wis., a Milwaukee suburb, let plant life take its course when he moved into a house on 2½ acres in the town's Sun Shadows West subdivision. Hagar put in some wild Wisconsin prairie grass and let nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Weeds Are Wonderful | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...between pairs of individuals. There are the skeptics towards love, Julia and Valentine, and those who use seductive wiles to break them, Proteus and Silvia. There are the two masters and the two servants, each couple bound in friendship though capable of deceit. And then there's the dog Crab, who qualifies for both categories. The mutt is not only ungrateful for the constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies the courtship between Launce's master (Proteus) constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies the courtship between Launce's master (Proteus) and Julia, prompting a mortified reproach from the ever...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cuanto Me Gusta | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

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