Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stream of human history. And The Immigrants extends beyond the story of Dan Lavette: he is just the character who gives the story its driving force, just as booming industry pushed America through the '20s. Fast creates many rich, three-dimensional personalities in his book--the powerful bankers, the fishermen, the couple who decide to leave the city to operate a vineyard, the girl who leaves for Hollywood in search of stardom, the man who swindles...
...Newfoundlands plunging into Pennsylvania's Lake Harmony carrying a life preserver to a "victim," or towing a boat along the shore, were re-enacting their breed's tasks of another century. Newfoundland fishermen used the dogs to gather nets spread in rich offshore fishing grounds. With a double coat similar to an otter's, the dogs withstood long exposure in the icy waters. Newfs are also strong swimmers whose webbed front paws arc out in a powerful breast stroke: no ministroke dog paddle for these canines. In the 19th century, it was rare to find a sailing...
...founded four years ago on the neighboring island of Molokai to lead a fight for more public beaches, but the organization quickly spread through the islands and shifted to the much broader purpose of redressing native Hawaiians' political, economic and cultural grievances. Its members include kapuna (elders), farmers, fishermen, college graduates and even a smattering of white liberals. Most of them are middle class and in their mid-30s or older. Says Emmett Aluli, a physician and an Ghana leader: "We are the last generation to have known Hawaii the way it was before the tourist invasion threatened...
Characteristically, the Yuvali found no port in Asia that was willing to accept its surplus cargo, which included two dentists, a surgeon, a professor of geography, a former ARVN major, two bankers, two nurses, several fishermen, and 16 children under the age of ten. Captain Tadmor made an unscheduled stop in Hong Kong to get the refugees desperately needed medical attention; authorities in the British crown colony refused to allow them ashore on the ground that the Yuvali was not scheduled to call at Hong Kong...
...pinnacle, a rock spire where an urban alpinist named George Willig developed the confidence that enabled him to conquer Manhattan's World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make their homes in the mountain lakes and countless streams that crisscross Montana's million-acre Glacier National Park. River runners can launch themselves and their specially designed rubber boats down the foaming Colorado...