Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns the Establishment Chronicle approvingly published the letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment: "Sir, I am the brother of a Lord, I have married an Honourable ... I shoot and fish well. I have a booming voice and am very tall. I was a very good soldier. I am pro-hanging. I hate Nasser. I love the Prime Minister...
...until the middle of June, when the young were safely hatched, did Waterston tell his proud secret. By then the young birds were almost as big as squabs on their diet of a pound of fish daily, and the written record of their family life filled 1,250 pages. Next year, if all goes well, there will be more osprey families on bonny Scotland's barbed-wire braes...
...rarely caught with its suspense down. There are the sepulchral groans and squeaks as the rusty nose-bolts on the bombs begin to turn. There are the sweat-beaded pauses when the demolition man draws the cables taut as delicately as if he were landing a poorly hooked fish. There is the drawn-out moment when a seemingly defused bomb reveals a second fuse and blows a man to bits. And through it all, Director Aldrich deploys his camera like a melancholy tourist over the desolate Berlin ruins. As drama, Ten Seconds is something of a dud; as melodrama...
...International Geophysical Year. As a member of the executive board of UNESCO three years ago, he made-only half facetiously-some arresting proposals: hauling Antarctic icebergs to water the Mojave desert, dyeing the ocean to control absorption of solar heat and thereby curb hurricanes, training porpoises to shepherd fish...
...become positively immoral about tearing pages out of magazines on airplanes"). Spilhaus and his artist, Carl Rose, dish out lightly sugared fare about the ionosphere and how it is used as a global "radio mirror," about the winds and how they flow round the earth, about harvesting fish with electric currents...