Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officially announced as "radiation disease." U.S. Ambassador John Allison issued a prompt statement of "extreme sorrow" and presented the dead fisherman's widow with a check for 1,000,000 yen ($2,777). But twinges of anti-U.S. sentiment flickered across the islands; delegations of tuna fishermen marched up and down before Japan's Foreign Ministry demanding an immediate halt of U.S. H-bomb tests, and scores of protesting Japanese paraded on foot or in trucks before the U.S. embassy...
...tale, four fishermen who do their net-casting at night are racked with doubt about the honor of their wives. The god Shiva gives them a magic powder to eat that allows each man to fish and to spy invisibly on his wife at the same time. At first the wives prove faithful, but the fishermen soon make cuckolds of each other, and inattentively lose their boat and all but their lives in a storm. In an other story, a not-so-holy man seduces the wife of a rich merchant only to find in her insatiable arms a compelling...
...weather-beaten fishing towns from Anacortes, Wash. to New Westminster, B.C., fishermen last week toasted each other in Slovenian, Norwegian and English. Not for 41 years had such hordes of salmon swarmed through Puget Sound on their way to their spawning grounds far up British Columbia's Fraser River...
...again. Wharves and packing plants were soon piled high with sockeye, whose firm red meat makes it a fine canning fish. In Bellingham, Wash. housewives were drafted to help in the crowded canneries; in Anacortes children were excused from school to help. In two weeks U.S. and Canadian fishermen hauled out 7,500,000 fish worth $2 each, expected to land another 2,500,000, v. last year's total catch of 4,000,000. It was the biggest haul of Fraser sockeye since 1913's alltime record of 30 million. It was also spectacular proof...
...Each year since then, the fish have swarmed back in ever-greater numbers (TiME, Oct. 3). Loyd A. Royal, U.S. biologist who heads the commission's scientific staff, believes that after a few more spawning cycles (four years), the annual catch will top 25 million, divided equally between fishermen of both countries...