Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days are as joyfully undertaken as the vigils of fishermen. In fact cricket has much the same appeal . . . you have long periods of time when you do nothing, but then for a moment you must act with all your strength and skill...
...Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair and dark eyes of Spaniards...
...thousands hung over their TVs and radios, rescuers worked on. At the 21st floor ledge, men spread a net, like fishermen in a sea of air. Jones's father and sister, and a priest, the Rev. Paul Huber, joined the rescuers on the 47th floor...
...Result. On the shores of Lake Overholser, Okla., after the public was invited to watch a team of seiners ridding the reservoir of undesirable fish, 20,000 Sunday motorists jammed all roads leading to the lake, prevented the fishermen from getting near the water...
They have also busied themselves with the "social apostolate" of the Church. In Jamaica, for example, Father John P. Sullivan and Father Francis G. Kempel organized fishermen's and small farmers' cooperatives to pull their parishioners out of economic trouble. Father Walter Hogan's Institute of Social Order in Manila -one of five Jesuit labor-relations schools in India and the Philippines-has bucked Filipino industrialists on behalf of striking dock and airline workers (TIME...