Word: catfishing
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...asking local officials when their turn will come. Indeed, when the Interior Minister, General Prapas Charussatira, visited the town of Nongkhai to initiate an aid program, he was welcomed as a bearer of good omens. On the day of his arrival, Mekong fishermen netted a 5-ft., 200-lb. catfish -a rare catch and the first of the year. It was served-cooked-at a welcoming banquet...
...because of his prowess at tree climbing. Lys Symonette's husband Randolph, an American baritone currently with the Düsseldorf Opera, is Huck's coarsely villainous father. He and Huck dangle their fishing lines in the Danube to whistle and sing a tuneful folk ditty called Catfish Song...
...Such a Dump." "After World War I," wrote Ernest Kirschten in his book Catfish and Crystal, "St. Louis dozed off. Maybe it was tired. Maybe Prohibition was not only a shock but also a sedative to this beer city. Depression was no stimulant. More than ever, St. Louis turned in on itself, contemplated its communal navel...
...blamed the Velsicol Chemical Corp., which manufactures endrin at Memphis. But the company had a ready reply. "If our endrin got into the river," asked a Velsicol official, "why weren't thousands of fish killed around our plant, instead of 770 miles downstream?" PHS answered that the doomed catfish probably got poisoned near Memphis and swam to the river's mouth before they died-a theory that hardly accounts for the fact that the catfish analyzed are not migratory species and do not commute to salt water...
...Kansas City had used up an inordinate amount of the Missouri's oxygen. Future kills may yet be traced to insecticides, some of which are toxic to fish in amounts that are harmless to humans. If so, Government authorities may be forced to choose between the interests of catfish and farmers...