Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish plentiful, and ... in time let me become a fisherman among fishermen...
...prayers. Hatsue is lithe and lovely, the winner among the women divers of an unofficial "best-shaped breasts" contest. A fleeting kiss on the beach is about all Shinji can hope for from Hatsue, since her father is a wealthy shipowner with small use for penniless apprentice fishermen. Author Mishima, who seems to have learned some of his flower-arranging from Hollywood, maroons the couple in an abandoned tower during a storm...
...less pleasant; the Japanese discovered that the conference, too, would be Russian style. Shigemitsu, who would like to get all the southern Kurils back, began by asking only for the return of the two nearest islands, Kunashiri and Etorofu, which are small, barren, and of value only to Japanese fishermen...
...Rules. Why? Well, these things take time. In the bureaucratic administration of government relief and private charities, there are rules to be followed, conditions to be filled, investigations to be made. It was not his fault, one CARE official pointed out, that some 3,500 fishermen failed to qualify for a certain consignment of food packages. "These fishermen," said a priest working for a Roman Catholic charity, "waited six years before deciding things weren't so good in Red China. We have a lot of refugees who decided much earlier. Naturally they deserve consideration first." As these organizations pondered...
Macken has told 21 stories, mostly in a brogue as thick as barley soup. A typical one is "The Currach Race"-a currach being the paper-thin, skin and withy rowboat in which Galway fishermen put out into the Atlantic. Colm wants to marry Sorcha, a fisherman's daughter. But the fishermen despise Colm because he is a farmer. Their taunts goad him into taking an oar in a currach race on St. Patrick's Day. He nearly kills himself, but in the end, bless him, they agree he's a great man, and there...