Word: fish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have never seen another place where a sheriff could swagger around the polls advising voters: "I don't give a goddam who you vote fer-I'm gonna be your sher'f." And anyone who went fishing in Wallins Creek after an election was more likely to hook a ballot box than a fish...
Though Macao is no stranger to refugees, never had so many-6,000 men, women and children-come at one time. Reason: a report that the Reds were about to start fishing communes, to match the hated land communes. To lure the fishermen back, Peking promised that the fishermen would still be able to keep up to 40% of their catch. The Communists also put pressure on Macao fish merchants not to buy from the refugees. Both pressure and promise failed. In desperation, some fishermen tried eking out a living with odd jobs ashore, or by begging in the streets...
...College's policy of discouraging interdormitory moving by upperclassmen is intended to help each hall develop a "character of its own like that of the Harvard Houses," Immogene Fish, associate dean of residence, said yesterday. However, the college "cannot create dormitory spirit by law," Mrs. Locke commented...
Sporting Life. In Sacramento, Calif., Senator Stanley Arnold introduced a bill in the state legislature requiring hunters who shoot other hunters to file a report with the fish and game department within 48 hours...
...into the court-wigged heads, writing hands, the judge enthroned, red-robed, heraldic like a king of cards; the back of the doctor's head and neck solid above the parapet; counsel in shadow-play shooting out an arm; lips moving soundless, all silent, sharp, like fish inside a bowl...