Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair of the male human animal grows more slowly than crab grass-about ½ in. to 1 in. a month. But it never stops growing this side of the grave. Were it not for the tyranny of fashion, which insistently summons men to the barber, they might all conform to the Book of Leviticus, which commands that "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." In these shaggy times, which can produce a Van Cliburn, an Allan Ginsberg and a Joe Namath, not to mention the Beatles, the Monkees...
...modest military quarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. There Thieu, who likes flowers, dabbles some evenings with a trowel, or walks through the compound with an air rifle, shooting birds that are cooked and served to dinner guests. His real love is weekend fishing with cracked crab bait in the Saigon River or in the South China...
...boats approached the belt of empty beer cans which littered the Jake at 500 meters to go, the number two man in the Penn shell caught a crab which flipped him out of the boat...
Actually, this year's varsity, which finished 3rd in IRA last June, made a better showing against powerful Penn than its length and a half loss indicates. It was a tight race until the Tiger boat caught a bad crab...
With three-eighths of a mile to go, Glen Schuhmacher, bow-man in the Northeastern boat, caught a crab which stopped the shell. Harvard took a one-length lead...