Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although members of the Cadet Corps undergo rigid military discipline, our "fish" are not "mercilessly hazed," but live under conditions characterized by a spirit of friendliness, courtesy, and honor...
...efforts to create more state jobs that he could fill, Barnett got into wounding fights with the state legislature by grabbing for control of autonomous state agencies. He pushed through a law reorganizing the Game and Fish Commission so as to open up some new jobs. He vetoed a widely supported prison-reform bill that would have removed some posts from his control...
...whale of a fish tale. The North American Air Defense Command had long tracked the Soviet trawler fleet operating near U.S. coastal waters. There are some 3,000 of these ships afloat, and many do much more than fish. Heavily laden with electronic snooping gear, their real function is military surveillance. They patrol off missile-launching Vandenberg Air Force Base in the West, off Cape Canaveral in the East, along strategic points in the Atlantic and Pacific missile ranges. They have even cut underseas communications cables...
Almost everything in Catholic life could come up for reexamination. In matters of discipline, the council fathers could modify the church's laws on clerical celibacy, hierarchic pomp, fish on Friday, priestly dress, the use of Latin in the Mass, and the Index of Forbidden Books. The church at the council cannot repeal dogmas pronounced by past Popes or past councils. But the fathers may well formally note that the last word has not been said about the church's revealed truths, and they may attempt to give new dimension to such doctrines as papal infallibility, the "real...
Deer in the Shower. Every Aggie joins the uniformed Corps of Cadets for at least two years. Senior cadets ("leather-legs") may wear breeches, boots and spurs, and mercilessly haze the freshmen ("fish"), who at all times "whip out" (shake hands) and cry: "Howdy! Fish So-and-so is my name, sir!" He-manship is undying. Hearty lads skin deer in the showers, carry Volkswagens up four flights of dormitory stairs, and work round-the-clock piling timber 100 ft. high for the purgative bonfire before the Wagnerian game with the University of Texas (U.T. has won 44 times since...