Word: goldfishing
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...cultivated Peiping gentleman cherishes three things in his quiet walled courtyard: a peng (broad overhead matting) for shade, a goldfish pool for the cool grace of its inmates, and a pomegranate tree for its fruit. With these he can free his mind from such pressing disorders as the occasional boom of cannon outside the town and the runaway inflation inside...
This summer the pleasant pattern for contemplation was threatened. The municipal health department decided to attack the fly and mosquito population by air-spraying the town with DDT solution. Private goldfish fanciers were outraged at the danger to the fish population...
Wrote one: "Professional cultivators in the days of imperial patronage developed more than 20 rare varieties of wondrous beauty . . . Many old established residents . . . have kept up the cultivation of goldfish in their private pools. In my courtyard there are several dozen fish, including the rare Red Dragon-Eye and the Five-Flowered Phoenix ... If this ridiculous foreign project [DDT spraying] is carried out, it will mean the end of all Peiping's goldfish. Then what man will be able to sit under his peng on a warm summer day and study the gentle undulations of fins and tails...
...volunteers. Basic training would last eight weeks at the start, be increased to 12 to 13 weeks as soon as emergency manpower shortages were filled. All draftees would be eligible for promotion. The biggest difference between 1940 and 1948 would be in the method of selection. Instead of the goldfish bowl lottery, draftees would be picked by age groups, would be inducted in the order of their birthdays...
...General Clay said the directive had been misinterpreted: only private correspondence such as letters from Congressmen would be withheld. But even as he spoke, the Air Force threw a curtain of secrecy around its European operations. Correspondents were left to wonder: Who threw the mud in the goldfish bowl...