Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treat tepee fever (life with father was better), foot specialists who make health shoes with cast-iron shanks so you can keep on ironing for four more hours, and orthopedic surgeons who diagnose and treat commuter husbands for slipped discs generated by aerobatics performed six inches above the crab grass...
...most exciting finish of the day came in the freshman heavyweight final; twenty strokes from the line Cornell went ahead and looked like a sure winner. Just as the Harvard crowd was moaning about losing the race, the Cornell boat stopped, as their number six man caught a crab. The Crimson slid to a 6:22.9 victory, much to the surprise of the crowd and the crew...
...tumbrels of social protest roll portentously across the stage will be sorely disappointed. The play also has one positive virtue: Baldwin's autobiographical acquaintance with the Negro evangelical scene. But Amen Corner, a 14-year-old first play, scuttles edgewise through this milieu like a crab, evading dramatic life more successfully than it confronts its characters. Baldwin has yet to learn that drama is really a verb masquerading as a noun...
Duco, their house color-coated and waterproofed with Tedlar, their crab grass killed with Oust...
...Hassan seems to dictate portions of his novels. Vying to usurp Hassan's dominion over earth are lesser but formidable rival gods, including 1) the lecherous ones of Venus, who are dosing man with the Orgasm Drug to draw him into fatal orgies; 2) the totalitarian of the Crab Galaxy, who have ready giant ovens to bake humans into insectlike critters in a hivelike commune; and 3) the plain old hophead gods of Uranus, who have become radioactive themselves and are plotting to frizzle Earthmen with their own radioactivity...