Word: carping
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...build a breakwater. Red-faced Seabees in green baseball caps, looking like goggled gods on their bulldozers, invaded the tropical paradise with noise and construction. By last week they had moved enough of Guam's earth to bury Tokyo's Imperial Palace, with all its moats and carp ponds. In nine months they had built the greatest advance base in the Pacific-some 5,000 miles from San Francisco, and but 1,500 miles from Japan...
...Japanese Exclusion League, about which you carp ... is building public interest for a postwar election, after the 10,000,000 Yanks get back from the Jap battlefronts, to vote on a Constitutional Amendment that would make it impossible for a Jap to have citizenship, no matter where he was born. If the Jap-lovers are against that American plan, let 'em say it with ballots...
...every ichthyologist knows, certain fish seem to possess an acutely developed weather sense: e.g., the loach, a species of carp (known in Germany as the "weather fish"), which becomes very lively when the barometer drops. From Cape Town last week came a whopping weather-fish story. Dr. Cecil von Bonde, South Africa's fisheries director, said he was testing a fish which seems able to forecast weather after death...
...Water. In Bournemouth, England, Mrs. Dorothy Banner cleaned her chimney, found wriggling in the soot alive, 10-in. golden carp...
...Security Conference began this week at stately Dumbarton Oaks, a magnificent 16-acre estate set like a jewel in Washington's Georgetown. The 39 delegates, none in a plug hat, strolled down the old pebble walks, through formal gardens, under Chinese scholar trees, across arched bridges over the carp pond. Promptly at 10:30 a.m. they filed into the pink brick Georgian mansion, past the Byzantine and mediaeval objets d'art, into the high-ceilinged music room. There they arranged themselves around a huge U-shaped table covered with the inevitable blotter pads...