Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left home, keeps scrapbooks which are extensive because San Francisco sportswriters play up Di Maggio for the city's 60,000 Italians. There are three other sisters and four brothers of whom the oldest, Tom, like greying Joseph Di Maggio Sr., who retired three years ago, is a crab fisherman. For a time it looked very much as if young Joe might follow the family profession also. This was last year when Tom Di Maggio, acting as his manager, in a financial dispute with the management of the Seals, threatened to take Joe out of baseball...
Colleagues who had played with him for years were amazed at Giese's facility, the way his big hand moved crab-fashion over the keyboard, producing harmonics and arpeggios with seemingly little effort. Most bull fiddlers stand up to their instruments. Waldemar Giese has a specially designed stool with a swivel seat and a foot rest (see cut) which give him support...
Samples: To leave no stone unturned (500 B.C.). Origins of this typical ancient proverb are shrouded in the past. Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence...
...gentleman also crab when TIME printed, routinely and honestly, regrettable occurrences (divorces) in the eminently respectable and respected family of the President...
...second race, which included three Freshman crews and a pair of 150-pound crews, were no less startling than in the first row. The first 150-pound crew took an early lead which it held to within a hundred yards of the finish line, where it caught a crab. The first Freshman crew took up the lead here and held it for a half-dozen strokes, but they, too, caught a crab here and it was the second Freshman that was first across the line. One of the men in the third Freshman broke an oar near the start...