Word: backlashers
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...spanking line squall worked its way along the Florida Keys and its backlash sent a wet wind whistling into the Key Largo bedroom of Captain Tom Gifford. The stocky man in the double bed rolled over and mumbled: "Southeast wind-that means the tuna are at Cat Cay." More concerned with her own comfort, Mrs. Esther Gifford got out of bed and closed the window. "Damn that man," she grumbled. "He can't stop fishing even in his sleep...
...Spinning reels, which pay out line from fixed bobbins and are never bothered by backlash, have made all kinds of casting simple for the beginner. Long popular in Europe, spinning reels now make up 75% of all reels sold...
...recall, the TIME account (April 5) was one of those stories of people caught in the backlash...
Blons, a quiet village in Austria's picturesque Great Walser Valley, was only one of many corners of Europe caught in the backlash of a deceptively mild winter that had suddenly turned vicious. Cross-Channel shipping was brought to a dead stop for two days as winds, roaring in from the Atlantic, whipped the seas into a fury. Far to the south in Italy, gondolas lay at their moorings in Venice under coverlets of snow. Even in Algeria, the snowplows were busy on the streets of Constantine...
...Backlash. Near Wellington, Kans., a fisherman abandoned his catch after he cast his line from a railway bridge over a creek, short-circuited an automatic control system, turned every block signal red on 107 miles of track, halted 14 freight trains and three passenger expresses, stalled them all for two hours...