Word: barracuda
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...fishing or leave it alone; but Florida boosters would have considered themselves betrayed if he did no fishing. Flanked by his chief of staff, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (who likes to fish), he set out in a crash boat to wet a line. His catch: a 5-lb. barracuda, a grouper and a mackerel...
Incensed when City Editor Lou Young of the Los Angeles Herald & Express canceled her day off, Aggie barged across the city room, proceeded to belabor him about the arms and neck with her handiest weapon-a three-foot barracuda which a fisherman had just given her. City Editor Young heard the laughter, decided it was best to join...
...Arctic dawn was grey and dismal and the carriers tossed in a heavy sea, but the Barracuda dive bombers and the fighters went up. Off Bodö in northern Norway, through wind-tossed snow and rain, they sighted a German convoy - four merchantmen and five escorts. The British attacked. They hit all nine ships, set fires on several, sent one to the beach and one, they believed, to the bottom...
...this work on weapons proceeds under the supervision of President Conant. Besides this work, the OSRD is busy with advanced problems of military medicine, and is attempting to solve such problems as mass production of penicillin, development and testing of substances which will repel sharks, barracuda, and jelly fish, treatment of gas casualties, and development of methods to make drinkable water out of sea water...
Inside are coral gardens, reefs and jutting shelves to protect smaller fish from their predatory neighbors. Already Marine Studios boasts the only porpoises and manta rays in captivity, sawfish, penguins, barracuda, devil fish, turtles, etc. Eventually it hopes to have virtually everything from jellyfish to man-eating sharks...