Word: crabbed
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...start of the race was staggered to compensate for a turn in the course, and the Crimson shell, in the outside lane was given a lead of a few seats. The varsity race had to be restarted when on the first attempt the Eli number seven man caught a crab within the first 30 seconds. On the start that followed, Princeton made up its handicap even though the Crimson pulled out at the fantastically high stroke of 48 for the first 15 strokes...
...Pennsylvania boat, which was slightly ahead of the Crimson for the first mile, finished the race with only seven oarsmen. Having less than half a mile to go, the number six man blacked out, caught a crab, and was thrown out of the boat...
After giving Dr. No the giant-land-crab treatment, the New Statesman's Critic Paul Johnson suggested that Fleming fans were psychosocial cousins of prison torturers in Algeria. In the current Twentieth Century, Bernard Bergonzi called Fleming's attitude toward sex that "of a dirty-minded schoolboy." He noted that the women are usually pushovers in a Fleming novel, and cited a bra-and-pantie-clad minx named Tiffany Case, who says not too long after she meets Bond: "I want it all, darling...
...best produced. When the Orange and Black came from behind for an exciting victory over Navy last week, it seemed that he was not exaggerating in his praise. Last Saturday, however, while rowing the shorter Henley distance at Philadelphia, the crew failed in its comeback bid after "catching a crab" during its final sprint at 40 strokes per minute...
...they rowed at a low stroke, between 29 1/2 and 30 1/2. Syracuse, behind by about two and a half lengths, began to make a bid to overtake the Crimson with three-quarters of a mile to go, but fell further back when one of the oarsmen caught a crab...