Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freshman race was the big disappointment of the day for Harvard fans. After leading the field for the first half of the 2000 meter course, one of the freshman eight caught a bad crab, losing his oar. By the time the boat recovered they had lost more than a length on M.I.T. and could not gain it back by the finish...
...question for the thousands who doused their lawns with the new chemicals is: Will they work? Five companies this year are marketing such products, most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others, presumably with names like Stomp, Unconditional Surrender...
...seed, whether weed or good grass, the trick is to sow grass lawns in the early fall only, and to apply pre-emergent chemicals in the spring. By that time, all the good grass will have caught hold, and the killer chemicals will attack only the germinating seeds-the crab grass and other undesirable weeds-that remain. Even if used properly, however, the killers may cause some harmful side effects...
...evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss of one of the 50,000 seeds. The second major type abhors garden work of all kinds, but when forced, kneels and begins working his way along the train of crab grass with such insatiable preoccupation that he soon disappears down the block, leaving behind a trail of bald spots...
...some suburbanites' horror, there are also many householders who simply no longer care about crab grass. It is green, after all, and it chokes out the less hardy weeds; moreover, it scarcely stands out in a well-mowed lawn. These people do not even mind that crab grass turns an unsightly brown with the first frost. At backyard cocktail parties, they move off in disdainful clusters to talk about Cuba or Kennedy's war on expense accounts while the antis exchange pointed views on calcium arsenate...