Word: herring
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...Well, you won't get it," Putnam replied. Donlan went on, "You're just trying to pull a red herring across this Committee's path. Why are you up here if you don't know whether you're for this bill or not? Or are you doing this just as a front? I DON'T LIKE THESE SLURRING REMARKS...
...radiator cap flaunting a red star, the Moskvich sold fast at $978, much the cheapest car at the show. For this quo, plus some gram and minerals, Russia's quid, under a trade treaty with Belgium, included sheet steel, copper, electrical equipment, and $150,000 worth of herring...
Wrote Novelist J. B. (The Good Companions) Priestley to the London News Chronicle: "We live in an age when no man of any importance ever admits he was wrong . . . Infallibility is cheaper than rotten herring ... I said after the war there would be a wonderful popular appreciation of the best literature, drama, music, and the visual arts ... I was wrong. And now, gentlemen, step...
...festive breakfast for 80 in London's Claridge's Hotel last week, Sir Frederick Bell, chairman of Britain's Herring Industry Board, rose to speak. "With all the fine food they have in America," said Sir Frederick, "the one thing they lack is a fine Scottish kipper." The guests agreed. They had just eaten 160 fine Scottish kippers to celebrate the shipping of 4,000,000 cellophane-wrapped, frozen kippers to New York, in the first big postwar invasion of the bacon & eggs (and dollar) market by the trade...
...small (about 1 lb.), bony member of the herring family, the menhaden is the U.S.'s No. 1 commercial fish. Unpalatable, menhaden are valuable for oil (soap and paint), stock and poultry feeds, fertilizers. Massachusetts Indians showed the Pilgrims how to use them: plant a menhaden in every hill of corn...