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Nottinghamshire had beaten Harvard earlier by five lengths in the first running of the final, but a controversial protest by Parker was upheld because a one foot-long piece of wood had jammed on a fin on the underside of the Crimson shell...
...careening keenness with him when he died in 1978. Pete Townshend, their great songwriter and guitar player, his hearing shredded by more than two decades of high decibels, could not even re-create all his lead parts. Still they soldiered on, three bowed veterans suffering the onset of shell shock from a barrage that hasn't even landed...
Only half the battalion made it. We continued running and walking, but wherever we turned we met German artillery and tank fire. They were in back of us and in front of us. To the right was automatic fire; to the left we were shot at by artillery. One shell hit a mine 300 yards from us and set off a long line of Polish-laid mines; they exploded in domino fashion. We ran, we lay on the ground, we ran. We didn't know which...
...unlock one vital secret. Murmurs a slightly embarrassed Tierney: "I can't even tell what sex it is." Her husband Matt and son Matthew, 8, could not care less about a crab's sex. With a devilish grin, Matthew places a roll of firecrackers under a hollow crab shell and steps away as his father lights the fuse. Ka-boom! That's one way to clear the beach...
...sand poking at a live crab with a stick. "I like watching how they mate," he says, launching into a kid's version of the birds and the bees on the beach. "He climbs up on her back, holds on to her tail, puts his claws under her shell and just mates. That's all I know...