Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with many good Ivy athletic teams is that they are like the proverbial big fish in a small pond. Once they are taken out of their comfortable ivied environs, they usually become small fish in a very big lake...
...backstroker Eric Fish, freestyler Buddy Orland, freshman Chip Tom in the breastroke, butterfly specialist Kurt Spohn, and freestyle sprinters Guy Stone and Bruce Featherstone all play key roles in the Bulldog strategy...
...stopped at one of the tiny tiendas or stores clustered in one stretch of the main street. There was really very little to choose from--some hard candy, oranges and bananas, a tasteless variety of popped corn, cocoa leaves to ward off the winter cold, some tins of canned fish. All of the food had to be bused in from Cochabamba, down in the valley, and hence was sparse and expensive. I decided to buy some peanuts. Not that I was very hungry; rather, I hoped to use them as a sort of bribe to entice people to talk...
...devotees of deep-freeze fishing now at its seasonal peak, there is no other pastime quite like it. In the numbing months when outdoorsmen have little else to do, it is not only a rewarding sport-state and federal authorities estimate that ice anglers in the Northeast and Midwest catch at least as many fish each year as traditional fishermem-but a welcome weekend escape into a predominantly male world of tall tales poker and six-pack camaraderie. Each February, when the ice grows thick enough on lakes in the Northern states whole towns of ice-fishing shacks spring...
Automated Fishing. Chopping holes through the ice and other such arduos labor these days is strictly for the Byrds. Gasoline-or electric-powered augers costing around $140 can drill through four feet of ice in seconds. Many fishermen keep their holes from freezing over with liberal injections of antifreeze. While most fishermen still knock together their own "bob-houses," more elegant prefabricated models can be bought for as little as $300 at sporting-goods stores, mounted on runners and towed onto the ice by snowmobile, car or truck (which can supply electricity for lights and appliances). The snowmobiles are also...