Word: catfishing
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...Including Little Big Horned Klansman James ("Catfish") Cole, who called the Klan rally that was routed by whooping Lumbee Indians in Maxton, N.C. last January...
Scales of Justice. In Dallas, the city paid $43.25 in medical bills for a garbage collector named C. E. Haddock, who stepped on a catfish, punctured his foot with a fin, was treated by a physician named D. C. Gill...
...streams in a moving cloud of mosquitoes, he watched for the ripples stirred by swimming platypuses and listened for the characteristic double splash they make when they hit the water. In likely places he set funnel-mouthed box traps, caught a few adult platypuses and lots of eels and catfish...
...decided to make a big cinemusical out of Porgy and Bess, the Negro folk opera (music by George Gershwin), the one trouble he did not foresee was a shortage of candidates for the leading roles. Since its first performance in 1935. the tuneful story of sorrow and joy along Catfish Row has been one of the theater's few durable meal tickets for Negro entertainers. It has enjoyed successful revivals on Broadway, innumerable road companies and a State Department-blessed international tour that included Russia and the satellites...
...Hoffa went to work, tirelessly washing and ironing the laundry that her two boys hauled home in a wagon. When Jimmy was about ten, the family moved 20 miles northwest to Clinton, on the Wabash River. The boys chopped and sold wood, set out trotlines in the river, caught catfish, bass, suckers; some were sold, the rest were eaten at home. They scraped the bottom of the Wabash for mussels, boiled them in big oil drums, sold the shells to button makers at the rate of $6 a ton. They learned how to take care of themselves...