Word: fished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Names of 'Cliffies breaking bicycle rules have been turned in to the college Administration. According to Mrs. Imogene O. Fish, assistant Dean of Residence, the college has made no plans to discipline the violators...
Brother-in-law's house represents the ultimate in uncomfortable functionalism, with a push-button kitchen, chairs that Hulot can't sit in, and a garden featuring a metallic fish which spouts water (used for company only). Director Tati and his man Hulot take this cheery homestead and turn it into a mechanized madhouse. Hulot, after discovering a rubber-based pitcher that bounces, tried to bounce a glass, only to find that brother-in-law's technicians haven't modernized that item yet. When a modern sofa proves impossible for Hulot to sleep in, he discovers that turned...
...wandering from their books to the spectacle of coeds decked out in tight sweaters and fetching modifications of the Pakistani woman's traditional baggy trousers. Worse yet, despite their exterior modernization, the girls remain shy and reserved, tend to move across campus in tittering groups, like schools of fish. Reeling after them in an agony of frustration, the boys gather outside the "ladies' common room" to giggle, guffaw, whistle and ogle...
Hockey Scores & Tuna Fish. St. Petersburg's retired oldtimers know exactly what they want in a newspaper, and it is up to the Times to give it to them. Each day, the paper devotes several columns to bridge, checkers, baseball, club meetings, roque and shuffleboard. The casualty list from a Vermont train wreck will be carried in full; hockey scores from Canada appear regularly; the opening of a new bridge in Philadelphia may not make Pittsburgh papers, but it is likely to appear in the St. Petersburg Times, whose old subscribers come from all over the U.S. and Canada...
Clouds of grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having...