Word: fish
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...mountain woman--or, if she prefers, a desert, valley or ocean woman. Because BOW's courses are offered in 44 states and nine Canadian provinces, she can hunt elk in Montana on one weekend and wild turkeys in Wisconsin, or deer in Texas, on another. BOW students learn to fish in all kinds of waters; shoot a rifle, shotgun or bow; navigate through different terrain; canoe and sea-kayak; harvest wild foods and herbs; hike through the wilds; and survive a winter night in the wilderness. From Friday morning to Sunday noon, participants choose four classes from more than...
...side, the seventy years where I was not. And this device enabled me to obseve him with that kind of closeness. The device of an omnipresent spectator of whom Reagan is unaware, but who is very much aware of Ronald Reagan. Somebody called Stanley Fish, who's a professor at Duke University and often writes on scholarly subjects, wrote a piece in the New York Times Book Review 6 weeks ago, just before my book came out, saying that all biography is actually autobiography, in the sense that it always reflects the prejudices and sentimentalities of the biographer...I must...
...Representing Harvard's best, Irving Clark '39 still holds the campus record with 24 fish swallowed. Of the two dozen scaly slithery creatures swimming in his stomach, he remarked: "They're kind of bitter, but they go down easy...
...Unfortunately before Clark's encouraging words could inspire the ante to be upped any further, the "fish wars" ground to a halt. Just months after the innovative sport was established, Boston Animal Rescue League intervened, proclaiming the swallowing of live goldfish inhumane, and many colleges outlawed any further contests...
...college student in Los Angeles in 1974. But it seems high time to drag the goldfish swallowing spotlight back to Boston. At $1.50 a dozen, a $38 bet should cover the costs. For the sensitive, feeder goldfish are bred to be eaten. Usually food for turtles or bigger fish, their fate is already sealed, so why not take a hint from gramps, take a trip to a pet store near you, and make a little history...