Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain, the narrator and his wife put up at a fusty old angling hotel in Wales. Every morning a Wodehouse-load of stuffed shirts set off to the salmon water, tackle in hand. Among them goes "poor Holloway," a somewhat seedy chap of dubious breeding who has yet to catch a salmon in 20 years of trying. Meanwhile, the "salmon widows" wait restlessly back at the hotel -- for Holloway to sneak away from the river to yet another noonday tryst. Just as the juvenile parr of the salmon tribe dart in among their unaware elders to fertilize the females' eggs...
...want to end it/ Had your fill of my kind of fun/ But you don't know how to tell me/ And you know I'm not that dumb/I put two and one together,/ And we know that's not an even sum./ And I know just where to catch you with/ That well-known smoking...
...bunch I have is very inexperienced. I don't think they've had much exposure [to play]," said fifth-year Coach Gurdal. "One thing I've noticed about Harvard athletes is that they catch on very quickly. If I can get the young crowd interested and into the game, then we should have a competitive year...
Scrod is a catch-all term for any fish fillet that becomes white when cooked. It usually refers to cod or haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been reconstituted. Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found...
...Johnson: this distance man hailing from Seattle could be the best catch of the crop. He is desperately needed because of the graduation of last year's Co-Captain Tim Ford...