Word: carp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your Essay entitled "Why Be Afraid of Americans?" [May 15] is a shocking display of your morbid prejudice against Richard Nixon. I believe that if the President succeeded in calling down the Angel Gabriel and effected a settlement satisfactory to all parties, you would still carp...
Coming Up for Air, George Orwell's fictional elegy for a vanished England, includes a celebration of boyhood fishing. The catch is lowly tench and carp, but the thrill comes from sitting by a green pool ringed with beech trees and watching a huge pike "that was basking in the reeds turn and plunge." Pike were beyond the boy's reach: "They'd have broken any tackle I possessed...
Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...
...saying "cost per thousand"; the other was saying "taxfree municipals." Both of them said "actually" a lot. I realized that I was working in a conference room with Zoysia grass. Few sights have been as beautiful as my five iron arcing over the Hudson and settling among the carp and the effluents...
Many imported fish-most notably the Asian walking catfish in Florida and the European carp in all states -have adapted so successfully to U.S. waters that they have crowded out valuable indigenous species. Other scientists fear that the amur could conceivably eat a lake's entire supply of vegetation and thus trigger a serious new kind of ecological imbalance. But, says Collins, "if we thought the amur was a monster, we wouldn't stock...