Word: carp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hers is no glib story of faith. Later she prays privately: "Jesus, there are many things I do not understand. Do not let me go mad." Graham has often been criticized for emphasizing personal conversion and avoiding the difficult problems in the Christian life. Few will carp at shallowness in The Hiding Place...
This year everything went as expected for the first couple of rounds, but in the semifinals the duo met a tough Princeton number two team of Lynn McClanahan and Terry Carp and wound up losing the match...
...Aswan* will turn out enough to make the country self-sufficient. The loss of the sardine industry, they say, is more than counterbalanced by the new fishing industry on Lake Nasser, which covers 2,000 square miles behind the dam. Fishermen are now taking river bass, Nile catfish and carp from the lake, and government experts estimate that annual catches will eventually rise to as high as 60,000 tons. Coastal erosion, Aswan defenders say, is not so much a product of the loss of silt as it is a result of changing wave patterns in the Mediterranean...
...starling is not the only alien species that plagues the nation. There are European pigeons, which spread a form of meningitis and defile monuments and building ledges and the German carp, a "wonderfish" imported in the 1870s, which has displaced native game fish from lakes and rivers by eating their food and their spawn. New threats come from the exotic species that escaped from rare-animal or fish farms: the ill-tempered Asian walking catfish, the South American piranha and India's citrus fruit-eating red-whiskered bulbul -to mention just a few. They prove over and over again...
Purists and adulators of Judy Garland may carp, and one can understand why, but this all-black musical version of The Wizard of Oz is a carnival of fun. It grins from the soul, sizzles with vitality, and flaunts the gaudy hues of an exploding rainbow...