Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tourist camp operators on Northern Ontario's Muskellunge Lake complained that a giant fish (estimated weight: 40 Ibs.) was ruining business. The monster reared out of the water, shaking his head and rattling the assortment of fishermen's plugs and hooks broken off in his jaws. The noise, it seemed, was frightening tenderfoot fishermen off the lake...
...comes from the reign of good King Kamehameha I (1782-1819). According to legend, while chasing two fishermen, he caught his foot in a cracked rock, was whammed on the head by one of the fishermen with a canoe paddle, which splintered. Asked why he struck the King, the fisherman replied that he feared him because the King ruled through fear. Chastened Kamehameha pondered, then issued the decree that became the island's bill of rights until 1840, when Hawaii got its first constitution. In effect the law urged: "Respect your God. Respect also the small...
...father's death by being even more to him than most mothers. But when she falls in love with a young man, she has little time for Agostino. Idling about the beach, he gets in with a bunch of young toughs, sons of the waiters and fishermen. They know a world which well-to-do Agostino has never even glimpsed, a world of hardship and cynicism just beneath poverty-stricken Italy's thin skin of luxury and pleasure...
Editor Tuttle's Fishing, a tuna-sized condensation of the whale-sized Fisherman's Encyclopedia, will not make the fish's lot any easier. But it should be as welcome to the nation's fishermen as a fast riffle on a mountain stream. Like command-level planners marking out a country for conquest, the 30 fly-wise, smooth-casting experts who helped to put Fishing together have methodically divided up their subject under such topics as "Game Fishes," "Where To Fish," and "When and How to Fish"-by fly-casting, trolling or spinning; in lakes, offshore...
This week Sonny was free on bail on a charge of attempted robbery; father Singh and three associates were in jail, charged with Philbert Peyson's murder. With sighs of relief, fishermen and smugglers put back to sea in the Gulf of Paria...