Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shriver's Punjab stay began with a massive brunch (fruit salad, porridge, fish, bacon and eggs, chicken and tea) with grey-bearded Chief Minister Sardar Partap Singh Kairon. Although he holds a master of arts degree from the University of Michigan, Kairon plainly had the wrong idea about Peace Corps purposes, promptly began asking for agricultural tools and pneumatic tires for bullock carts. Shriver patiently explained that the aim of the Peace Corps was merely to send able and enthusiastic young Americans abroad to work side by side, wherever needed, with the natives of underdeveloped countries. Kairon advised Shriver...
...general public knows little about the art of bathroom painting, connoisseurs know that the best men in the field like to start early. The real artists are careful about the materials they use, too. With a cunning rarely equalled in recent Harvard history, a special variety of low-grade fish oil was included in the paint mixtures...
...coincidence, suggestive evidence along the same line was reported simultaneously from Iceland to the International Academy of Pathology in Chicago. Said Dr. Niels Dungal: Icelanders have one of the world's highest death rates for stomach cancers; they eat a lot of smoked fish, and extracts from the smoke have caused stomach cancer in rats...
Back to the Bay. But for all the messages about fish rising and rainbows flashing, the expected mass uprising failed to take place, and the tide of rebellion ran out. The airstrip at Jagüey Grande was seized, but when the first rebel B-26 came in to land, it hit unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed...
...Fish, Little Fish. Sometimes spotty, this ably acted comedy deals with a once promising minor editor who is the big fish to a school of meddlesome minnows...