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Word: dorsal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shelf, his three brothers quickly made it back to safety and stood up to watch Masami's progress. Some ten yards behind him, but rapidly closing the gap, a glistening black triangle cut through the waves. Moments later Masami's brothers screamed with horror when the dorsal fin slipped from sight; the shark had dived to attack from below. Warned by their cries, Masami abruptly flailed his arms backward, and the shark's jaws snapped on empty air. As the fish flashed by, Masami instinctively wrapped his arms around its slippery middle and hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Giant Killers | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Salt Water Sportsman, "someone discovered that bluefish would strike at the shankbone of an alley cat. For years when the blues were biting, you couldn't find a live cat in town. There are even lures out now with built-in fish calls. Or you can remove the dorsal fin from a live pigfish, drop him in the water, and his little squeals of discomfort will often attract sea trout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Classroom for Casters | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Bunker Hill Monument he designed ; and Mr. Bulfinch would praise Bakr's work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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