Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risk of closing their minds. We practice an affectionate kind of fratricide." What Brandeis has in fact produced is a mirror of the liberal, learned, humane tone of Justice Brandeis himself. For just this reason, it is likely to go on being a kettle of highly individualistic fish. Says Sachar: "You've heard about the two castaway Jews on a desert island? When they're rescued, they're asked why they built three temples. It's because every Jew must have one temple he wouldn't be caught dead...
...farmers were told that they were being moved to a nearby strategic village called Ben Tuong, to be equipped with a school, clinic, market, deep wells, and a defense force of soldiers. They were promised a down payment of $25 and a free daily ration of rice and dried fish to tide them over the first three months...
...Fish Trap. As such resorts go, Las Cruces is not expensive. What keeps it the preserve of the very rich is its location. A private plane or, failing that, a power cruiser, is the only way to get there with any semblance of convenience. There are nearly always four or five planes parked on the dirt runway, and on one occasion, the number reached...
There is little to do there except fish, but the fishing is almost incredible. The narrow gulf between the east coast of the peninsula and the western shore of Mexico itself is a great natural trap for billions of game fish that are swept into the area by Pacific currents. The place teems with black, blue and striped marlin, tuna, swordfish. cabrilla, barracuda, yellowtail, bonito, dolphin and roosterfish...
There is no crime. Theft would be pointless in this cooperative little commonwealth. It is vegetarian by principle (though fish are unofficially counted as vegetables). For the dissatisfied, of course, there are always those tasty hallucinogenic toadstools...