Word: combs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...
...Time to Speak Out. The most remarkable thing was that even Mc-Comb, consistently the most intransigent of the intransigent, was obviously awed by the fact that there is a rule of law. The day before the Biloxi hearing started, 650 of the town's leading doctors, lawyers, ministers and businessmen placed a full-page ad in the Mc-Comb Enterprise-Journal declaring that "the time has come for responsible people to speak out for what is right and against what is wrong." Said the ad's signers, who described themselves as "Citizens for Progress": "There is only...
...Spartan regime that begins at 6:45 a.m. with a brisk run on a gravel road followed by hot and cold showers. Though neither an outstanding student nor athlete, he mixes well, and his public image is that of a healthy boy with a mop of hair that defies comb and brush. When it was suggested that he has a Beatle's haircut, His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, heir apparent to the British throne, grinned and said, "You mean the Beatles have a Prince Charles...
There were mornings I would not comb...
Paul Bunyan, who used a pine tree for a comb and once hitched his blue ox, Babe, to the foot of a river and hauled it into an adjoining prairie, would have been proud to claim credit for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel...