Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second race, Eliot and Adams were deck and deck in the stretch when a Gold Coaster caught a crab, enabling the hard-pressed Mastodons to win by a length. Their time of 4:26 was the fastest of the day. Dudley's creaking, leaking hull finished third by about six lengths...
...London's Thames River, the underdog Cambridge crew caught a crab at the start of its traditional race against Oxford. Then, with 200,000 people watching, Cambridge caught up with Oxford and forged ahead to win a five-length victory-in the fastest time since the race was first rowed in 1829. One Cambridge secret weapon: a cow that the crew had bought to insure a healthy supply of milk in food-scarce Britain...
...land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
...careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused farmer, "looks just like a dried up crab apple under my tree back home." Said another: "The funniest thing I ever...
...King crabs were first canned and sold commercially by the Japanese, who managed to stifle all competition by using "floating canneries" and cheap labor, and disregarding other nations' territorial fishing rights. From 1931 until 1940, the Japanese sold $27 million worth of king crab in the U.S. alone...