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Davis discovered that the active ingredient in the "zombie potion" was a species of puffer, or blowfish. Many of these fish contain a tetrodotoxin, one of the most powerful non-protein poisons known...
Then too there is a question of aesthetics: the American taste may be broadening, but many people still recoil from an unattractive name. So a vocabulary of euphemisms for Cinderella trash fish surfaces. Dogfish becomes grayfish or salmon shark. For opakapaka, try Hawaiian pink snapper. Blowfish are sold as sea robin or sea squab. The huge, shapeless monkfish fetches a , higher price under its French name, lotte...
...main job went to the same submersible that originally found the bomb: Alvin, a 22-ft. deep-sea research ship whose bulbous shape resembles a puffed-up blowfish. Using its mechanical claw, Alvin was supposed to slip a cable around the bomb so that it could be towed by surface ship up the incline to a plateau 2,000 ft. below the sea's surface. Once it was on level ground, the bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact...
...droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when Host Jack Paar cued Guest Maxwell with a remark that Walter Winchell "is after me." Not waiting to learn how, Elsa expanded like an enraged blowfish, crying: "He's never voted and never registered! Is that a good patriotic American or not? He is phonier than we are, Jack...
...think Mr. Eisenhower has ever caught a blowfish? If you tickle its stomach, it swells hugely. McCarthy has very nearly reached the popping point. What a shame that our President missed his chance to administer the pin. The Senator needs it, and so does the country...