Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giant, Shattered Fish. As soon as it was airborne, the giant and graceful Boeing 707-120B-the latest in jetliners and the pride of American Airlines-rose dramatically, boosted by its new turbofan engines. At about 700 feet the jet banked smoothly to the left in accordance with its flight plan, then veered sharply, almost rolled over completely-and plunged nose first into the tidal marshes of Jamaica...
...reached up from the earth, grabbed its nose and pulled it down," said Businessman Joseph F. Farano. The jet exploded, sending a geyser of water 200 feet into the air, followed by a plume of funereally black smoke. A minute after the crash, it lay like a giant, shattered fish just beneath the transparent waters of the bay, with scattered debris and flakes of aluminum skin glinting on the tufts of marshland. The only signs of life were clouds of wheeling sea gulls, roused from a nearby bird sanctuary, and a dozen helicopters that whirled to the scene like...
...food is very hot; they drink scalding tea; they then drink more alcohol than their womenfolk. He also suggests that traditional stoicism may predispose Japanese men to psychosomatic stomach ulcers and later cancers. In the Scandinavian countries, doctors blame high rates of stomach cancer on diets rich in fish, with home-smoked fish particularly suspected in Iceland...
Captain George Doub maintained his undefeated record for the year, decisioning Ken Linker 2-1 at 130 after Ed Grietzer had lost his 123 match to John Fish of Brown...
...reported a tribesman. "He spoke Jarai, just like us. He told us that his men would soon be masters of the South, that the French left the country to them. 'And when we are masters,' he said, 'you can have everything in the jungle. All the fish. All the meat...