Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...look back on the season and say we should have done that differently.”Though Harvard was in the lead for almost the entire race, the second varsity eight placed second behind Wisconsin. A strong gust of wind caused an oarsman to catch a crab in the final 200 meters, allowing the Badgers to overtake the Crimson in the last moments of the race. “After a string of wins in the dual races of each subsequent Saturday, we were firmly on track for achieving the perfect record,” Morgan said...
...cable, however, there's a growing alternate universe of hit reality series about workers no one puts in sitcoms anymore. The highest-rated show on the Discovery Channel, Deadliest Catch, follows crews of Alaskan crab fishermen fighting storms, monster waves and other boats to haul wriggling paydays from the cruel, icy deep. The show's producer, Thom Beers, has followed up with the History Channel's Ice Road Truckers (about long-haul drivers in the Arctic), Ax Men (loggers in Oregon) and truTV's Black Gold (oil riggers in Texas), debuting in June. Dirty Jobs profiles salvage workers, plumbers...
...worker calls in sick ($1,000 an hour in company revenue). Economic risk is as ever present as the physical danger, and--by pushing workers to go faster and harder--one feeds the other. The workers know precisely how much everything costs, not just the crab and the crude but also their family time, their rest, even their safety...
Both the varsity lightweight eight and the heavyweight varsity finished second in their respective petite finals, while the Crimson second heavyweight varsity boat peered headed for a gold medal before an oarsman caught a crab in the last strokes of the race. The second varsity finished second, Harvard’s third and fourth varsity heavyweight eights finished one-two in the third varsity final and both freshman heavyweight eights won gold. The lightweights went without a medal in the top two races for the third straight year but captured bronze in the second freshman eight event...
...second heavyweight varsity eight, the EARC’s No. 1 boat, fell to Wisconsin for the second straight year, felled by a caught crab in the final 20 strokes of the race. The Badgers crossed the line with a time of 6:17.21, just 0.2 seconds—a bow ball’s distance—before the Crimson finished in 6:17.43, despite having caught a crab during the furious fight to the finish...