Word: codfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunlit, stuccoed San Juan, beggars collapsed on the streets. There were fist fights when 22,000 pounds of spoiled codfish were dumped into the sea by customs inspectors. Last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart reported, after a tour of the island, that storehouses were empty of rice and fish, that only a month's supply of beans was available. In San Juan, prices soared: the cheapest kind of beef meat sold for hamburger at 59? a pound, small brown eggs were three for a quarter, onions 40? a pound. Quinine to use against malaria...
...motley armada of transports, barges, converted yachts, tugs and a codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from...
...Webster without trying to look like the great man. His Webster is not the violent Massachusetts statesman but a homely, gusty humanitarian. Jabez, his wife (Anne Shirley) and his mother (Jane Darwell) are first-rate as the kind of people who made New England "out of hard luck and codfish...
...east of New York City lie the grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
...early books, scorned by U. S. critics, were warmly received, like their author, in England, where she fascinated Thomas Hardy with descriptions of San Francisco's cable cars, described George Moore as "a codfish crossed by a satyr." The Conqueror (1902), a life of Alexander Hamilton, generated a whole school of romantic, novelized biography...