Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even for fish, herring are not bright; to them a curtain of air bubbles looks like a stone wall. Taking advantage of this lack of judgment, the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries is trying out an ingenious system of herding schools of herring into fishermen's nets...
...ancient custom, a Japanese fiancé seals the engagement by buying the bride. Last week Crown Prince Akihito made a small investment (two fish, five rolls of white silk, six bottles of sake), officially sealed his troth to Michiko Shoda, who then knuckled down to the weary task of studying the archaic imperial wedding lore under Palace Ritualist Osanaga Kanroji. His bride in hand, the prince was free to join his parents. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagoko, at a heady gala: the annual poetry-reading contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka...
Ultimately, man cannot refuse the challenge, if he is to keep alive the essential spirit that distinguishes him from animals. After all, man's ancestors that stayed in the sea are still fish...
...year; China's archaic and anarchic transportation system, being rebuilt by the Reds, is bogged down lugging pig iron for the nation's new steel industry; the bureaucracy is making a mess of distribution. Last month the people of Canton, who live next to a sea of fish, could get no fish; Shanghai residents had to take half of their rice ration in sweet potatoes...
...Indian language. I could tell she wanted to be friends." The Amueshas, it turned out. were peaceful sun worshipers-their only word for the sun is "our father"-who took to the idea of school enthusiastically. They are perfectly willing, for instance, to catch a particular variety of fish so that it can be photographed, sketched by artists at Yarinacocha, and reproduced in a primer...