Word: fish
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Some of the other exercises had names that were closer to the original Sanskrit. "The Fish" is done by lying on your back, with only the head and lower body touching the floor and the back sharply arched. "The Cobra" is a slow curl starting from a face-down, lying position, so that you end by looking at the ceiling. Both are done to stretch the neck and back muscles...
...McGeorge "the usurper" and "Rover boy." Three years in Washington have mellowed and humbled him somewhat-he was particularly shaken by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a project he backed wholeheartedly-but some acquaintances still complain of his intellectual arrogance, and one official refers to him as "the coldest fish around." At the Pentagon, Bill is occasionally accused of a lack of imagination and a Brahmin disdain for his colleagues, but that is a minority view...
Hickory Hill is a Virginia home that houses one turtle, one frog, one guinea pig, one donkey, one crayfish, two lizards, two horses, two servants, three salamanders, three toads, three dogs, three birds, three roosters, four ducks, six ponies, eight children, 22 tropical fish, hundreds of meal worms, and Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, 35. It is a bad house to live next to if you are not kind to animals. When Ethel made up her mind that the man next door was starving his horse to death, she quickly brought the creature over to Hickory Hill, where the horse died...
...stretch out of sight. It is the magazine's ambition to fill every one of them. The current issue, for example, invites readers to make pomegranate jam, build a five-level child's bed, hide the garden gas meter with evergreen shrubs and watch the Karok Indians fish at California's Ishi Pishi Falls. "Everything we publish has to be something on which a reader can take action," says Sunset Editor Proctor Mellquist. "This gives us a very limited role in the field of urban planning. If our magazine has a social conscience...
Hunters like to tell about the bird dog that once pointed a pike in a pool. When the pike was caught and opened, it contained a partridge. A fish story? Probably. But last week, as 10 million hunters expectantly tramped out across the golden fields for the start of the upland bird season, the lucky man was the one with a dog-a good, solid, well-trained pooch to find the bird, wait patiently until the master is ready, then retrieve in tail-wagging triumph...