Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built for the U.S. Navy by Vitro Laboratories, can be adapted for commercial use. The Solaris is an eerie, Jules Verne monster that probes the ocean floor with four 500-watt floodlights and a television eye. When it spots a lost torpedo or other wanted object, a giant crab's claw snaps out, hoists the catch back to the surface...
Airlines and free reservations at such luxury hotels as the Habana Hilton. At rum-punch receptions and over dinners of Morro crab, the friendly visitor soaks up heady talk of revolution, sometimes from the "maximum leader" himself...
...composer could write a song in a few minutes, recalled Wodehouse; he would jump up from poker games to scribble music. He liked to eat a hard-shelled crab at 2 a.m.. then write music the rest of the night. Early in his career, he worked on as many as six shows at once. Although he threw many songs away, he must have kept a sizable school of minnows along with Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Ol' Man River...
...went hours awry, he pleaded with Himmler for more guards and materials. Himmler suggested using more dogs to herd the prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when the camp gassed and cremated "rather more than 9,000" in a 24-hour period...
Bill Hulet's technique on the hunt stems from years of studying the stomachs of his kills to discover the black bear's feeding habits (grass and fir buds in April, crab apples in October). "Some bears turn carnivorous just afore they go into hibernation and go after calves and chickens." says Hulet. "If I know what they're eating, I know where to find 'em." To corner them, Hulet uses half a dozen hounds of his own special mongrel breed: one-quarter pit bull, one-eighth Australian cattle dog, and the remainder Redbone or Walker...