Word: crab
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...that familiar character of modern fiction, the wanderer who can in habit diverse places and situations as naturally as a hermit crab crawls into an abandoned shell. Unlike Edward, she accepts age and solitude without feeling boredom. Unlike Stephen, she can draw pleasure from watching dust motes dance in a shaft of light...
...typical crab louse attaches itself to the base of a pubic hair, burrows into the skin, feeds on the host's blood, and lays visible whitish eggs, Dr. Nicholas Fiumara, head of the communicable disease department of the Massachusetts department of pubic health said yesterday...
Scratching will not remedy the problem and can cause a second degree infection Flumara continued. The burrowing and feeding of the crab causes the constant itch, he added...
...climes. Slaves came from Africa bearing benne (sesame seed), okra, yams and remembered formulas that were to become the masterworks of Southern cuisine. Frenchmen marched ashore to reincarnate such classic dishes as bouillabaisse, which is a culinary cousin of gumbo, a permissive potpourri that can include chicken, turkey, ham, crab, oyster, shrimp or anything else on hand. While New Englanders learned-belatedly-to raise beef and sheep, Southerners derived sustenance from the wild game and pigs and chickens that were raised almost as members of the family...
...list of the world's great foods would have to include such Southern elegances as she-crab soup, terrapin stew, jambalaya, black-bottom pie, gumbo or pompano en papillote...