Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belated offer was acceptable. "My recommendation," he replied in his flat, unemotional manner, "is that the committee issue the subpoena for all six items today." Doar's patience and fairness in the inquiry so far has won respect among Republicans. Some then backed his view. Republicans Hamilton Fish Jr. and Lawrence Hogan complained about the "dilatory tactics" of St. Clair. Republican David Dennis nonetheless asked to subpoena only the first four items. Republican Delbert Latta, a Nixon loyalist, offered a motion that the subpoena be perfected by making the last two items more precise, apparently an attempt to delay...
...hidden bays. It also has a deepwater harbor big enough to accommodate today's enormous supertankers. But, unlike Durham, it is a gray and decaying town. Eastport is too far from big cities to be a summer haven for tourists, and so its economy is dependent on declining fishing and fish-processing industries. Unemployment is so high that the area has been called "a down-East Appalachia...
Pittston is said to have offered Mearl Corp., which transforms fish scales into raw materials for shirt buttons and lipstick, as much as $7 million for a key 35-acre plot...
...board, but they come off as silly and boring when performed. Professors sing lectures on medieval agrarian history against a background of rock music; a panel of experts is asked, "What changes would you make if you were Hitler?"; and a pet shop specializes in turning dogs into cats, fish and parakeets with just a little scissors-and-paste...
...vital embodiment of emotions that possess an intensity and beauty one rarely recognizes in the human form, no matter how present. In his famous pantomime, The Creation of the World, expressing the inexpressible for a fleeting moment he relates visually the most ineffable of all mysteries. Flocks of birds, fish, space, the breeze in the trees, Man exploring the powers of his own self pour out from the fluid manipulation of one body. The simple sketch becomes a meditation conveying the wonder, the joy and the pathos of human existence...