Word: bloater
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...rather than end the battle. No one regards the current program as a long-range solution to anything. Quite the contrary; the one proposition that nearly everyone could agree on is that the current farm policy is a mess. It is a voracious devourer of tax dollars and a bloater of deficits. By the time the 1981 law expires, price-propping expenditures will total $53 billion, or more than three times as much as the Government shelled out during the four years governed by the 1977 law (and five times what the framers of the 1981 act expected). Anticipated outlay...
...mail went, he said, "to Lord Tennyson to ask where he got the word balm-cricket and what he meant by it; to the Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought to ask the best wordman he knew - Dr. Murray...
...relax their efforts. Less than a third of the $3,250,000 excise tax, for example, has been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters (448,000 in 1935, 1,000,000 in 1938) may require tighter limitations on duck hunting...
Hard by stood one Jack Carter, horny-handed skipper of the drifter. "Tell me now," said Royal Edward, grave with interest, "when is a bloater a kipper...
...Well, Sir, it's like this. When we catches one he's good fresh herring. When they salts him and hangs him up to dry he's a bloater. When they splits him down his middle and dries him some more, why then, Sir, he's a kipper...
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