Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There seems to be just one thought in the minds of pedestrians-to go on from queue to queue, from the one that stretches behind the bus stop to the one that lines up in front of a stubbornly shut shop window, where dried fish may or may not eventually be dispensed. Peking's buses, always crowded, have for the past few months been fitted on top with huge canvas cylinders: to save gasoline they are now run on natural gas. Never since the inauguration of the Communist regime in 1949 has poverty been so widespread...
...long, faded-yellow loft building now used for apartments, a few lonely fishing boats, and an occasional tourist are all that remain today of what in better days was one of the world's greatest fishing wharves. Perhaps the only fish people could see at T Wharf in recent years were those they consumed off of the willow pattern china at the Blue Ship Tea Room, a popular seafood restaurant at the tip of the wharf...
...fishermen took over the Wharf and constructed the present long yellow loft as their headquarters. When built, the second and third story rooms of the loft probably extended 75 feet to accommodate sails and masts. But after 1914, when Fish Pier was built, fishermen gradually moved to South Boston, leaving the T Wharf building for anyone who could use a cheaply constructed, commercially obsolescent loft...
...Kimball's apartment opens on a narrow, well worn, and slightly fish-smelling staircase near the middle of the building. After maneuvering around several sharp corners, we arrived at the top, directly confronting Maria Kimball. She greeted us right hand fairly defiantly extended, feet firmly planted as if to counter a ship's pitch, and left hand crammed against her hip like a sailor...
...pounds, Tony Woodfield wrestled to a draw with Bruin John Fish, and at 130 George Doub downed Brown captain Gene Bouley. Nick Estabrook lost an 8-7 decision and Tom Hardesty was easily defeated by Brown's Delaney, but Harvard swept the next four matches. Heavyweight Tom Gaston fell to Bruin star Bill Wood, who is undefeated this year in dual matches...