Word: crabbed
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...obviously frustrated, and wanted to impress his friend," Crazy added, "but when he asked how someone had time to eat crab during a race, she laughed in his face and walked away. Then Lee started chewing on the pavement, and I knew he too was suffering from the disease...
...catch a crab: (King, Alaskan King, legs of) An oarsman catches a crab when his oar hits water on the recovery, knocking the handle back into his body. At times, the shock can be violent enough to throw an oarsman from the boat in which case he may get "sharked" (sharking is usually fatal to the race...
...final sprint was the big story--for the last two weeks, when Harvard needed the fast finish, it wasn't there. And Saturday was the right time to find it, for the Navy crew was not about to fade or catch a crab, as Columbia and Dartmouth were kind enough to do last month...
...there were a few bright spots in this cold, rainy week, too. The Harvard and Radcliffe crews swept their varsity races on the Charles Saturday, although the men's lights needed some help from a crab. The women's lacrosse team continued its hot play, winning its sixth straight game. And, last but not least, the fledgling women's track team won its first varsity meet ever--83-35 on a cold, wet Brown track...
...great many questions about a search committee that stalls, ices the puck and takes an indeterminate number of walks to the pitcher's mound before nominating a new athletic director. It seems to me that if you were in a crew race, they'd say you had caught a crab--an expression, incidentally, that I finally mastered this weekend. I used to think that only crews in Maryland could catch crabs...