Word: barracuda
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...such specialized fishing byways as fly tying (there are "more than 30,000 recognized fly patterns"), the "Solunar Theory" of fishing, "How to Fillet a Fish," how to prepare a fish for mounting, and the "comparatively new" use of artificial lures in going after such saltwater leviathans as tarpon, barracuda and dolphin...
...with cook). "I've never met a snoek face to face," said Food Minister John Strachey, announcing the purchase, "so I can't tell you much about it except that it's four feet long and slender." But the dictionary defined snoek as a form of barracuda, and Strachey's press conference broke up under the firm impression that snoek was a maritime menace. A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek as the "Tiger of the Seas...
...raced to a natural history museum. Ah, yes, said a learned authority there, the South African snoek (not to be confused with the basslike Gulf of Mexico snook or robalo) is indeed a barra-couta, a cousin of the mild-mannered mackerel and no relation to the barbarous barracuda...
Confronted with this ichthyological news, a Food Ministry press relations officer croaked: "Oh, my God!" and promised to call back. "Well, at least," he reported gloomily several hours later, "the Food Minister had never actually called a snoek a barracuda...
Aggie can keep up with the boys at drinking and cussing, and sometimes does. She rarely loses her temper, but when she does the effect is spectacular; she once beat a city editor over the head with a cold, dead barracuda (TIME, July 29). Her hair usually looks as though it had been combed by a vacuum cleaner, and her clothes are often baggy. Except for a secret, feminine and justifiable pride in her Jegs, she has no time for vanity. The divorced mother of two grown children, 45-year-old Aggie likes to cook (her specialty: spaghetti), but would...