Word: halibut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says "so perish the enemies of free men." With his incipient "Navy wife" Margaret nestling to leeward, he sets off after his halibut...
...fishing schooners. Built to sail in weather that would blow the paint off her, the Gertrude L. Thebaud met Nova Scotia's older, bigger Bluenose in three salt-sprayed races, won once, lost twice. In her day she has brought back many a load of cod and halibut. Now, with her white hull painted drab grey, she will patrol the Atlantic Coast listening for lurking subs...
Before beginning their dietary ordeal, the participants ate an extra quantity of vitamin A in the form of halibut liver oil with their regular meal. During the test, the fare contained lass than a tenth of what is usually considered the minimum vitamin requirement, and only one-fiftieth the amount recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council...
...found that Mexico is the country where the letter 'x' is pronounced three different ways... and where during one civic riot the taxicabs charged mounted cavalry like tanks-and won." He also talked to President Manuel Avila Camacho, who is "about as colorful as a slab of halibut," but "steady, cautious and efficient." In Mexico Gunther shed some common U.S. illusions: 1) that Mexican Presidential terms usually end with assassination (there are seven ex-Presidents living in Mexico today); 2) that all Mexican Governments are overthrown by violence (none has been overthrown since...
...sunshine vitamin, is the only one which the body is known to synthesize. Produced through exposure to sunlight, it is also found in tuna, herring, cod and halibut liver oils...