Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide neck of land in the quiet Acadian country of Nova Scotia, they left one of the most remarkable villages in North America...
...Fishing? In one night fishermen from Monterey's Cannery Row excitedly seined more sardines (9,000 tons) than ever before. Captain Nick Mezin's stubby Delores M. brought in the largest catch-260 tons. For the night's work the 800-odd fishermen collected close...
...that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
Prisoners of War. One ordeal was over. The fishermen treated them decently. And when Zamperini and Philips were delivered to the base at Wotje, Japs there also treated them decently. But when they were moved again to Kwajalein, another ordeal began...
Peace, Quiet, Eternity. There was evidence of frightful devastation; at the same time there was an air of peace and quiet and eternity. Brown-skinned swimmers plunged in the jade-and-white waters of the bays, and fishermen gazed calmly at the giant battlewagons. Farmers tilling the checkerboard of fields were more concerned with their growing things than with the myriad planes overhead; they did not look...