Word: crabbed
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...improved, the vague shapes in the sky contracted until it became possible for radio observers to direct optical astronomers to smaller and more manageable areas. In 1949, astronomers using these directions spotted the first visible object outside the solar system that was associated with a discrete radio source: the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star explosion (or supernova) in the earth's Milky Way galaxy. Shortly afterward, they identified the first visible source outside the Milky Way: a large galaxy 50 million lightyears* from earth. In the next decade, as radio and optical astronomy continued their fruitful alliance...
Among its tourist attractions, Baltimore boasts of succulent crab cakes, miles and miles of red-brick row houses, and the fourth busiest harbor in the nation. It quickly glides over its most famous tourist lure, the seamy, sinful strip known as "the Block," a symbol and byproduct of a police department that ranks with the worst in any major U.S. city...
...Texas menus, has gone to work as "culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate electric blenders and knives and whoop it up for the company cookbook, which recommends such delicacies as hamburger soup, crab-meat corn chowder, and baked honey-orange ham slice...
...poems and stories are too much alike. Almost all of them share the same cold-blooded, Absurdist detachment. The magazine needs some comedy, some non-In point of view, as much as it needs more polished and more comprehensible artists. In coming issues the Advocate should shove the mutant crab off its cover...
...critics recalled what the prize was being "rehabilitated" from-the 1958 episode when the party bludgeoned the late Boris Pasternak into "voluntarily" refusing the prize. Sholokhov himself had got in some of the licks, denouncing the Swedes as "unobjective" and belittling the author of Doctor Zhivago as a "hermit crab." Now that the Academy had demonstrated its objectivity to his satisfaction, Sholokhov smiled and announced: "I gratefully accept the Nobel Prize...