Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of State Dean Rusk said that he recommended dropping the case against Melekh in hope that the move might contribute to "improving our position as regards the protection of United States citizens in the Soviet Union." But the explanations seemed a bit unconvincing. Melekh was a pretty big fish to be let off the hook. Was "his release part of an unrevealed deal with the Russians...
This is the second lot of tax, you know, On money that I earned two years ago (The shark, they say, by no means Nature's knight, Will rest contented with a single bite: The barracuda, who's a fish more fell, Comes back and takes the other leg as well...
...seceded from the federation; they also refused the Sudanese (who stubbornly clung to the name Mali) further access to Senegal's great, modern port of Dakar. With no outlet to the sea and nothing to sell on world markets save peanuts, kapok and a little rice and dried fish, Mali's Premier Mobido Keita turned to the increasingly popular game of playing West against East...
...Fish, Little Fish (by Hugh Wheeler), despite a good deal wrong with it, is honest, unhackneyed, ably acted, and quite worth seeing. Center of it is William Baker, a once-promising, now dribbling, minor publishing-house editor who is yet the big fish for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres. There are William's dull mistresses, who have been more habit-forming than exhilarating; there is a culture-nibbling male spinster, a self-centered, vermouth-soggy ex-publisher. Dancing around William at birthdays and get-togethers, they bicker and collide, inflate their roles, deflate their...
Nothing could touch Mij in the water as he soared, a fish tucked tight in either armpit, through infinitely intricate aqua-besques; but on land he was much more vulnerable. He met his end being bludgeoned to death by a bloodthirsty truck driver who took advantage of his tame, trusting nature. Writes Author Maxwell, with emotions of pain and rage that the reader cannot help but share: "I became fonder of him than of almost any human being, and to write in the past tense makes me feel desolate ... I hope he was killed quickly, but I wish...