Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That food should be scarce in a city whose harbor waters literally jump with fish and where grain and corn bend in nearby fields is a contradiction. But it is not an uncommon one in young Third World countries where economic pragmatism has been pushed aside by ideology...
Angola has been steamrollered in some business deals. Cuba was granted fishing rights off the coast, and the relatively efficient Cuban trawlers have put the local fleet virtually out of business. Much of the Cuban catch is shipped to Cuba for freezing and packaging, and then shipped back to Angola as costly "imported" fish...
...player who has seen it all; Animal, the out-of-control drummer who must be chained to the wall; Crazy Harry, the special-effects man who is fond of explosions; the incomprehensible and meatball-brained Swedish Chef; and such peripheral loonies as Lew Zealand, manager of a boomerang fish...
...century sewage control projects provided temporary improvement, they could not keep pace with the swelling population. After World War II, efforts at purification were set back further: detergents and other chemical effluents left the lower Thames covered with foam, literally choking the river to death. Deprived of oxygen, one fish species after another vanished. River passengers became ill from the rotten-egg aroma of hydrogen sulfide rising from the polluted waters...
...after a long, patient battle that could serve as a model for river cleanups everywhere, the waterway is again becoming the "sweet Thames" of British poets. No fewer than 97 varieties of fish have resumed residence there. Back too are the famed swans, as well as less common birds such as the pochard, a type of duck, and the dunlin, a sandpiper. In March, the Thames Water Authority will begin restocking the upper reaches of the tidal Thames with what the agency's boss, Hugh Fish, calls the "most persnickety offish"-the Atlantic salmon...