Word: eels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks. I will not allow people to bore me. Nobody has ever been more alive than I. I am an electric eel in a pond full of flatfish...
...dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki and Captain Troy are also headed for a hurricane, an engine-room fire, a rock fight on Pitcairn Island, a death struggle with a gigantic eel-if the show lasts long enough...
Seldom before had so many fancy foods been set before the gourmets and gourmands-eel from Canada, white asparagus from Belgium, kangaroo steak from Down Under, smoked Ostyepky sheep's-milk cheese from Czechoslovakia. The occasion was the fourth annual Fancy Food and Confection Show last week, and buyers marched into Manhattan's caviar-class Waldorf-Astoria to examine 20,000 food products-four times as many as last year...
...differentiate the sound of a sub from that of a destroyer or a rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives are the pings, for all the world like those from submarines, that bounce off sunken wrecks...
...enemy to your rear. He also learns to sleep on the bare ground, to catch naps in the saddle, to laugh at the cowboys' jokes-and they laugh hardest when the joke is practical. One day, just for the hell of it, somebody wraps a "prairie eel" around somebody else's neck, and everybody gives the victim the heehaw until the rattlesnake gives him a bite. It is then that the greenhorn learns what a human life is worth on the trail. As the man lies dying, the other hands sit around and beat their gums about this...