Word: carped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their plight: WELCOME - BOREDOM CITY - POP. 16. Says Doug ("Pee-wee") Flannery, 24, a deckhand on the White Knight: "You just watch the second hand go around." To keep busy, the crew of the Hawkeye has adopted four mallard hens; the men aboard the Ann Blessey cast for carp using hot dogs and cheddar cheese. One deckhand reportedly persuaded the pilot of the White Knight to steer a ragged course around the ice floes in pursuit of real or imagined silver foxes...
Many farmers make up in resourcefulness what they lack in resources. Karczmarczyk, for example, keeps several dozen carp in his water tank and uses the fishbones, scales and innards to help sustain his chickens. He also enjoys some well-placed influence: since his late father was said to be friendly with Jaruzelski, Karczmarczyk has managed to wheedle more feed out of the government than most of his colleagues do. He can therefore afford to be relatively stoical. His wife may think of Reagan as a "chicken killer," but the farmer maintains that "Reagan has taught us to think. For years...
Instead of dingy city birds, now, in Nagano prefecture of central Japan, we saw turtledoves with feathers tipped gold like scales of the carp, and swallows dipping low, and skylarks singing from their hovers. "I know birds," Tadashi said. "There's big ones and small ones...
...found that smoking causes cancer, they'd call a press conference to advertise the fact?" Yet the report may also serve to warm the hearts of crass producers. They now have more reason than ever to believe that no matter what they put on the air, viewers may carp and complain, but they will continue to watch...
...fish over time, a process known as bioaccumulation, poses a long-range, if not immediate, health hazard. Warned Adamkus: "This is going to be a ticking bomb for human beings if it is accumulated over the years." The sample fish in the study were bottom feeders, such as carp and catfish, which scavenge in slimy sediment, where dioxin tends to settle. Cautious environmental officials renewed warnings against eating fish from the Tittabawassee, though no outright ban has been declared. The exact health risk from dioxin absorbed by fish has not been determined...