Word: haddock
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...seen filing a story in only one frame in the entire 24-book oeuvre - Tintin took on various roles as detective, Boy Scout and secret agent. As time went by, he accumulated friends: along with his astute and faithful dog, Snowy, his retinue included cantankerous sailor Captain Haddock; eccentric egghead Professor Calculus; and the doltish, bowler-hatted, doppelgänger detectives, Thomson and Thompson. And his adventures took on more elaborate themes, from drug-smuggling to Cold War spying and even space travel; Tintin reached the moon 15 years before Neil Armstrong. Since Hergé first drew his quiffed hero...
...states. Arbroath's harbor has been regenerated by $2 million in E.U. grants that have turned its once-forbidding granite docks into a recreational marina with berths for 58 yachts - and a waiting list for more. Even the final surviving vestige of Arbroath's fishing industry - a locally cured haddock marketed as the "Arbroath Smokie" - has been bolstered by a Protected Geographical Indication from the European Commission, a similar status that protects sparkling wine from France's Champagne from imitators elsewhere...
...seems like what the UC does is try to ignore what University Hall says and look ridiculous, or try to contradict University Hall and just be ignored,” she said. Martel added that she would emulate the negotiation style of former UC President John S. Haddock ’07 in dealing with administrators—which she characterized as “let’s be nice to the administration, lets not give them an excuse to look at us as a bunch of whining spoiled kids.” PLAYING BY THE RULESIn...
...desk, but he made Tintin a world traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...
...following the initiation of the pilot program, said Harvard College Library (HCL) Director of Communication Beth Brainard. Lamont established its new hours in 2005 partly in response to repeated student calls for a 24-hour library. A 2004 Undergraduate Council (UC) report authored by former UC President John S. Haddock ’07 and current UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, found that 92 percent of undergraduates contacted through a phone survey supported extending library hours. “Given that most schools have students centers and libraries that are open for 24-hour periods...