Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were still living comfortably at Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, the Virginia Company planted the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown. By the time the Pilgrims debarked from the Mayflower, the settlement at Jamestown was thirteen years old. Long ago before Squanto taught the New England Separatists how to fish and raise crops, the Virginians were exporting thousands of pounds of tobacco to satisfy the nicotine hunger of England. Jamestown was earlier, bigger, and richer than Plymouth. Yet we commemorate the Pilgrims' first good harvest, and all but ignore the Virginia colony...
Robert Kennedy began his campaign for the Senate at the Fulton Fish Market, and the day after election he returned. The same hands pulled at him, and the same voices said, "He looks just like Jack--a little thinner and sadder, but just like him." But this time Senator-elect Kennedy smiled, for the campaign was behind him. Now he looks to the future and what will happen in New York...
Obviously, no professional thief in his right mind would try to steal any of those gems. They would take for granted that burglar alarms are stretched like invisible fish nets across the room, that sharp-eyed guards march hither and yon on everlasting alert, and that at the very least the windows are locked...
...Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already given warning of the prodigy he was sending west: "Manning is one of the shiniest fish ever to come out of the sea. He has the drive, charm and quickness to do anything...
...forever. Our children's children shall live a million miles away. It took us one billion years to form a spinal cord, and now we're going to leave this shore and go off to another planet. It's like being there the day the first fish crawled out on land...