Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Synthesis in the long run amounts to swallowing the enemy completely. How did we synthesize the Kuomintang? Didn't we take enemy personnel and reform them? Some of them we released, but the majority we took into our forces. Eating is also synthesis. When you're eating crab, for instance, you eat only the meat and not the shell. The stomach absorbs nourishment and expels waste. You gentlemen are all Western philosophers, while I'm a native philosopher. The synthesis we applied to the Kuomintang was to eat it up, absorb the greater part and expel...
...long as a foot, has so few natural enemies that it can roam almost anywhere. Plagued by other recent invaders-the Bufo toad from Central America and the Asian walking catfish-Florida biologists are reluctant to import any anti-snail predators, such as the India glowworm, the hermit crab, or even more Bufos, which are known to feed on the young snails. Instead, they have begun careful spraying with insecticide (granules of metaldehyde mixed with tricalcium arsenide). So far, the chemical warfare seems effective. But the snail threat will not abate until the last Achatina is vanquished-which is hardly...
Julian is an English economist in his middle 30s-or has been one, since economics can describe only the past or the future and his attention has been sharpened down to pain's single vivid dimension, the present. He shelters a crab: cancer. The effort of concentrating properly on the crab's requirements makes him weave and shake like a drunk. He is not a drunk; alcohol cannot touch the pain or the concentration that balances it. When the pain becomes so demanding that there is no awareness left to walk with, though, Julian stops...
Basque cuisine. Famed New York Gourmet Michael Field pronounces its cream of king crab soup as fine a soup as any he has ever tasted. English-speaking Owner Alfonso delights in introducing tourists to such unpronounceable Basque delicacies as kokotxas, zancarrón, merluza koskera and bacalao...
Winthrop downed Eliot in softball to tie for that championship, but the Jumbos won the "A" crew. A Winthrop oarsman caught a crab and was thrown into the wet Charles River. Eliot took advantage of this misfortune and won the race to regain the Straus Trophy from Joe Mullin's boys. And whatever happened to Leverett...