Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a Polaris missile, the great fish roars out of the water, sometimes jumping twelve feet or more as he goes raging and tail-walking across the ocean.-See SPORT, All Out for Banzai...
...Olympics neared. The problem was the low-slung nature of Tokyo itself: a megalopolis covering a radius of about 65 miles, with sidewalkless streets barely broad enough for two rickshas to pass cautiously, most of them lined with open-fronted shoe stores, rice stores, restaurants, confectionaries, raw-fish shops...
...drought, the flow of the river has been so low dead fish and other debris have collected along the banks. There have been several complaints about this, and about the discolored water in the Charles...
...view is spectacular. No two of the 550 approximately 300-sq.-ft. patios are the same: the Frederick Bradleys' holds a slender Japanese maple and a jungle of flowers, while the John Hamrens have surfaced theirs with pebbles, Irish moss, lava rocks and a fountain ("We did have fish in there," says Mrs. Hamren, "but we have four cats, and now we don't have fish in there"). Other families found the courtyards made perfect playgrounds and barbecue pits; some installed a sliding roof and built a hothouse underneath, and one couple put a screen over the open...
Cocteau, shortly after he met Sachs, made what was perhaps the kindest judgment of him. He was, he said, "a deep-sea fish, luminous but blind...