Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with her cherished "chestnut three", in favoring of widening Brattle Street. But what the Cock House lacked in hallowed foliage, it made up in wholesome tasty food. Before long its fame as am eating place had spread throughout New England. This to the extent that a rhapsodic passage on "crab meat souffle" a la Cock Horse may still be read in Donald Heinz's "Adventures in Eating...
...Tokugawa Era, which began in 1600, Japan withdrew into its shell like a frightened hermit crab. Feudalism was established; foreigners were driven from the country or tossed from mountaintops; Japanese were forbidden to leave Japan. This period, in many ways Japan's greatest and in many ways the shape of things-to-come in 20th-century Europe, ended in 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Perry. The Japanese people, who are by nature the world's cleverest imitators, entered into a new era of imitation of all things foreign...
That all flesh is as grass-and mostly crab grass at that-is a juicy writer's thesis that seems incapable of being squeezed dry. One of the latest literati to draw blood from this cosmic lemon is Elder Olson, a young, Byronic-looking assistant professor of English at Illinois Institute of Technology. His The Cock of Heaven is a long poem about the irremediable genesis, incorrigible exodus and appalling exeunt of the Goddamned, salvation-proof children of Adam. For purely literary excitement, it should rank as the poetic book-of-the-year...
...this point Curwen's eight clicked and pulled out of the ruck to take a narrow lead. Buck Anderson and Wilson were bow and bow just behind Wagner until a reverse crab, caught near the Mass. Avenue Bridge, stopped the Anderson craft dead in its tracks...
Wilson's boatload nipped the surging Anderson shell by another fractional margin, and Bristol Hall's heavy, crossing fifth, edged out the first fifty to finish, stroked by Johnny Abbot, who had waged a nip and tuck battle down the course with Bobby Lincoln until a crab put his fifty out of the competition...