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Word: fish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fish Bowl. Stockholders, who have received no dividends since 1974, were not mollified. Their questions and complaints dragged the annual meeting out to 2½ hours, twice its normal length. Noting that Chapin's salary has just been raised from $225,000 a year to $245,840, Shareholder Harry Korba asked, "Why did you not have the decency to tell the board you would refuse the increase?" The dapper Chapin replied, "We are not going to discuss my cost of living." Another shareholder, Jerry Fylonenko, said that car buyers he had talked to variously described A.M.C.'s squat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: American Motors Hangs In There | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...disagree with your labeling the San Antonio News an ignoble fish wrapper. The News would probably make a good bird-cage liner or emergency umbrella. I prefer to confine my reading to the San Antonio Light and, of course, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Those theories may be a bit too facile to sum up the complicated man who can, at the same time, publish a quality national daily like The Australian and an ignoble fish wrapper like the San Antonio News, who can shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...some people will continue to fish for fat meaning and lessons about life. A young man rose during the midnight exchange and said to Welles: "I just wanted to tell you that I thought F for Fake was a masterpiece--one of the most exciting things I've experienced--and I'm going home to think and think about it." When some simple editing tricks pass as so many profundities, no wonder Welles thinks of Art as the art of putting one over

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: H for Hype | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...team to attend high school, and b) is prone to blood blisters, against which he had to contend in yesterday's 15-7, 15-7, 15-3 victory. "The blisters are a result of the fact that Mike still has baby fat on his fingers," Coach Dave Fish said after the match while practicing with Mead...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Racquetmen Do It Again, 9-0 | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

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