Word: crabbed
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Throwing their napkins into the Crab Louis, or whatever else was before them, the San Francisco brokers rushed back to the exchange floor to handle the buy orders they knew would follow the news. In the 2½ hours of trading still left, A.T. & T. which had closed in New York at 108½, climbed to 110 in San Francisco, and General Electric (New York close: 63⅜) rose...
...from which God has been banished. Its inhabitants run things as they did on earth; the rich and powerful are welcomed, the poor and weak are persecuted. Mathews deftly turns everyday life into a lurid nightmare. His symbolism is brilliant in fragments, but it spreads through the novel like crab grass and tends to choke the narrative...
...nearest town to the Oregon forests that Fujita bombed, has never forgotten its wartime distinction. The town's Junior Chamber of Commerce is raising $3,000 to bring Fujita, along with his wife Ayako and English-speaking son Yasuyoshi. 25. The Fujitas will participate in a crab feast, an outdoor church service, the annual Azalea Festival parade. They may even fly over the azalea-speckled forests around Mount Emily, where Fujita's bombs fell...
...that fair officials joke about erecting a saloon at the needle's base called the Chicken-Out Inn. The dining spot above, called the Eye of the Needle, enables the visitor to watch the lakes and mountains glide by while he dines on such regional specialties as Dungeness crab, tiny, wild-flavored Olympia oysters, and grilled salmon steaks at $6.75 table-d'hote. Since the central core does not revolve, a waitress going into the kitchen for an order has to check an indicator on the wall that moves at the same speed as the dining room...
There are 70 eating places on the grounds, not counting, an elaborate Food Circus with 60-odd food bars. "Beefsteak saute with button mushrooms, filet of sole Marguerite and crab Louis are nonchalantly dispensed by bill-changing vending machines in 18 kiosks. Elsewhere, visitors may buy fish and chips, Mongolian steak, Belgian waffles, Cyrillic-alphabet soup from Yugoslavia, and Seattle scones...