Word: crabbedness
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I have clomped, crabbed and fanned quite a few oars against thole pins, but I have yet to recall one as squeaking. Against an oarlock, maybe yes, but a drop of [cod] liver squeezings . . . will eliminate any such annoyance.
Based on a 1933 German movie by Curt Goetz called Dr. Praetorius, People goes fairly deep for Hollywood into such questions as witch hunts, illegitimate babies, medical ethics and income-tax exemptions. Mankiewicz gets a full measure of help from his cast, each of whom has at least one big...
For 55 years, Rhee had been running for the job of "father of his country." Last week, old, tired, crabbed, but still determined and still a symbol of Korean independence, he was closer to it than ever before.
The Overshadow. In the '20s the avant-garde poets wanted to revolutionize the language and in the '30s to revolutionize the world. In the anxious and expensive '40s, they have largely felt obliged to try for tenure in the English departments of U.S. colleges. Of the 15...
For ten years Spanish landlords have cursed and crabbed over a law that forbids raising the rent of a tenant, but it remained for Francisco Lopez Luque of Granada to say it with music. Last week he had his tenants dancing.