Word: grunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always has its magic, especially at night, when the beaches are deserted and the sand runs cool beneath your feet. The waves roll in, sighing at last up the shore. The sky glows faintly overhead and darkens at the horizon. At certain seasons, schools of tiny mad fish called grunion fling themselves on the sand to spawn; they come in shimmering silver waves and are decimated by grunion-hunters who scoop them up into buckets, alive and writhing and unsatisfied...
Harvard and M. I. T. also came in for some criticism, primarily for their belated response to the housing shortage. The study suggested the universities double their contributions to the City treasury; these payments amounted to over $1 million last year. Edward S. Grunion, assistant to the President for Community Relations, declined to comment until after he had read the report...