Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the bane of streetwalkers and their patrons, Phthirus pubis, or the crab louse, is exhibiting upward mobility. As sexual barriers tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...
...Harvard almost didn't make it to the varsity finals in the afternoon. In the morning qualifying heat, Fred Fisher, number four man in the Crimson shell, jumped his slide on the second stroke of the race, and then caught a crab. Coxswain Brian Sullivan stopped the boat, expecting the referee to start the race over. He didn't and Harvard finished last...
...dispute developed. In catching the crab, the number four rigger was bent, and Harvard claimed that under racing rules, its equipment had been broken, and thus the race should have been stopped...
With 1000 meters left, the Harvard coxswain called a power 20, which moved the boat out ahead by half a length. At this point, the bow man in Princeton's shell caught a crab, which immediately threw the entire boat down to port. In the panic to get the boat moving again, the number five man jumped his slide...
...this time, Harvard had taken the two-length lead which it held to the finish line. Princeton was only three seconds back of Pennsylvania last weekend. Harvard's similar lead over the Tigers before the crab means that next week's confrontation with Penn at Annapolis should be close...