Word: bonitos
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...water darkened from shore-sea green to mid-sea blue. Through it trailed 30 yards of Hoover line, baited with a strip of bonito flesh. Near it on another line flipped and danced an oreno teaser, a wood and aluminum decoy.* Silent minutes made a silent hour...
...Hoover line jerked, went slack, jerked again. Below the water a rapier snout struck at the bonito, crunched on the hook. The fisherman let his line out fast, as the creature sped away, leapt into sunlight, shook itself angrily. The Hoover line was taut again and remained so for 25 struggling minutes, as the next President and his first sailfish fought it out in the Gulf Stream...
...rain-tan. Even when it did not rain, there was so much moisture in the air that clothes became soaking wet in ten minutes. More pleasant were the native feasts which lasted from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. A sample menu: crabs, lobsters, centipedes, octopus, green turtle, bonito, albacore, roast pig, chicken, duck, breadfruit, bananas, mummy apples, yams, coconut milk...
...Klan seems to have been taking a leaf out of Mussolini's book, inspired by the sight of how completely II Bonito controls his excitable peninsula; and its failure to obtain its objectives may be accounted for by the inability of Americans to do things as dramatically as Italians. The ground was prepared well. Many Americans are convinced that our national institutions are gravely threatened, and many more feel the childish thrill of joining with an organization dealing in large popular movements. The American public is as susceptible as any other to political charlatanism. The Klan uniform is much more...
...Mexico had also a famed bull, Bonito, who fought so gallantly?killing six horses, injuring many men?that the crowds thereafter demanded that his life be spared. Bonito was sent to the breeding pen, died well on in years...