Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it hardly came as news to the housewife, the Labor Department last week reported another sharp increase in food prices. Leading the rise were beef, veal and poultry, which, with fish, jumped 17.4% in cost during the twelve-month period ending March 31. Pushed on by these three main-course staples, overall food prices leaped .7% in one month, hiking the consumer price index .4% to an all-time high of 112% (based on the 1957-1959 average...
Even in Sāo Luiz, where buzzards still feast in the streets, a modern fish-freezing plant is starting up, and across the state a new hydroelectric dam will soon boost the state's power capacity from 10,000 kw. to 235,000 kw. A group of ambitious jute traders in hustling Santarém has set up a factory that makes sacks from raw jute; it now employs 800 people. Hotels are going up almost as fast. This month a new 16 story hotel opens in Belém, the first major hotel in decades. Manaus also...
...there are only 5,000 regular players and 20 local clubs in cities ranging from Boston and New York to Los Angeles and Denver, and their number is growing. The game appeals strongly to mathematicians and scientists, who often take up such other Japanese customs as eating raw fish...
...milk bottle and retorts, "Learn to aim. I have." But after a great deal of water sloshing in buckets the crisis is resolved. Characterizations are often achieved through a single line. When Ruth speaks of herself as cultered she says, "Red wine with meat and white wine with fish," and then continues to clean the plastic slipcovers on the furniture. The parents are parodies and are played accordingly by John Burslem and Jane Bullock...
...trim and she mixes a very mean metaphor. "One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, to fish or cut bait, to put up or shut up," she says. She is Ruth M. Adams, 51, dean of Douglass College, the women's division of New Jersey's Rutgers University, and soon she will take a stand at Massachusetts' Wellesley College as successor to departing President Margaret Clapp...