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Word: budalastina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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Ivica stayed home brooding. So he was too old and too weak. "Budalastina [What poppycock]," he muttered. "I am stronger than all the men of Bol, and I will show them." Ivica knew a cove along the shore beyond the village. Hiding in the rocks of a reef 50 ft. out was a giant conger eel. For years the men of Bol had tried to catch it and had failed. Every day after the younger men had rowed off to the fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Old Man & the Eel | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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