Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black tuna, black tuna," crackled the clandestine radio. That was the signal that another planeload of marijuana was being picked up from Colombia to be sent to the U.S. by the Black Tuna Ring, whose members carry medallions engraved with the fish. The gang is estimated to have smuggled $300 million worth of narcotics into the U.S. since 1974. Last week a federal grand jury in Miami hooked 14 Black Tunas with a 40-count indictment for, among other things, racketeering and smuggling. It was one of the biggest drug busts in history...
...afraid of the big bad monkfish? Certainly not Julia Child, that indefatigable doyenne of the television kitchen, even though the monkfish, or Lophius americanus, is such an ugly American that fish stores ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When...
...have beaten them today they would have had to break some ankles," Harvard tennis coach Dave Fish said yesterday evening after his squad dropped its match against unbeaten Princeton, 8-1, in New Jersey...
...Fish seemed satisfied that his troops had given a good account of themselves. "They've had a great season," he said yesterday. "To pull themselves together after the Navy defeat, beat Yale so badly and then lose to them by only one point in the New Englands despite having a bad day was just great...
Pompan's dedication has gone a long way toward elevating his game since he came here in the fall of 19. For years one of the top 20 players in his national age group rankings. Pompan has worked with coach Dave Fish and picked up his game a notch at Harvard...