Word: basse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, crewmen began unloading draggers at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market on the East River. Through the quiet streets leading to the market, giant trailer-trucks rumbled up with even bigger loads. There were cod and pollock from Massachusetts, salmon from Canada, croakers and sea bass from Maryland, lobsters from Maine, shrimp from Florida, clams and oysters from Long Island. They were put into barrels and boxes or just piled in the bins of stalls along the waterfront...
...Matilda Klopenheimer" ate first shift dinner with Cabot Hall residents last night, and was then placed on social pro for wearing her hair in a pincurl and bandanna. Though she excused her bass voice by saying she suffered from a slight attack of laryngitis, her unfamiliarity with the Radclice routine made her position doubtful...
Penrose's background was in education, not politics. His father rescued Whitman College in Walla Walla (Wash.) from abandonment, served 40 years as Whitman's president. Young "Binks" Penrose went to Whitman, sang bass, played varsity tennis, majored in chemistry and Greek. Then, on his father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...
...nine-man band made sweet music that sounded like two marshmallows meeting headon. Its shuffling, danceable rhythm treacled out of a fair piano, a soggy sax, a toneless trumpet, a cooing clarinet and a bass. The feature acts, a good old square dance and the numbers the boys in the band clowned up in trick hats and phony mustaches, were strictly corny. But last week, while many another U.S. nightclub with tonier entertainment was as empty as the inside of a kettledrum, Chicago's old standby, the Blackhawk Restaurant, couldn't find room for all the customers...
...Bass Instinct. Near Whiteville, Tenn., Fisherman William Dower reported an attack: he was fishing peacefully when a large bass leaped from the water, knocked off his glasses, struck him on the temple, gashed him with a fin, victoriously dove back...