Search Details

Word: fishinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

This is the lightest of the poems by various hands, liberally scattered through the text. Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" recalls an oversize catch: "victory filled up/ the little rented boat . . . until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!/ And I let the fish go." John Ciardi celebrates "The Lung Fish," a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fish Stories BLUES | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

The church. South Africa is officially a Christian state, and most Afrikaners take their Calvinist religion seriously. In the upcountry towns where Afrikanerdom still follows the old rules, Sunday is strictly a day for prayer and rest and for paternal readings from the leather-bound family Bible: no sports, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: United No More | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

The Florida panther has inhabited the federal endangered species list since 1967, but James Billie, chief of the Seminole Indian tribe, argues that he was not always aware of the tawny cat's protected status. In 1983 Billie killed and ate a panther on the Seminole reservation in the Everglades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Species: Charged for His Dinner | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

The New River did not even exist until 1905, when the flooding Colorado River dug a new channel that arched south of Mexicali, Mexico, then back north into California. But it has made up for lost time. Says Gruenberg: "It's the most polluted water in California, and perhaps in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dead Cats, Toxins and Typhoid | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

From the shantytowns of Port-au-Prince to the fishing village of Pestel in the south, Haitians last week peacefully crowded to the polls to cast their votes for a new constitution. More than 40% of the electorate, an astonishing figure considering the country's pervasive illiteracy, turned out and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Voting Out the Evil Spirits | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 316 | 317 | 318 | 319 | 320 | 321 | 322 | 323 | 324 | 325 | 326 | 327 | 328 | 329 | 330 | 331 | 332 | 333 | 334 | 335 | 336 | Next