Word: ivica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ivica Krunic was a fisherman in the village of Bol on the isle of Brae. First as a boy with his brothers, then as a man with his sons, Ivica had pulled his oar with the best in the 25-ft., four-oared boats. But two winters ago, when Ivica was 68, his sons Vicko and Ivo came to him one day with an ultimatum: he must stay home because, unable to pull his weight, he endangered not only his own life but theirs, if the bora struck...
...Ivica stayed home brooding. So he was too old and too weak. "Budalastina [What poppycock]," he muttered. "I am stronger than all the men of Bol, and I will show them." Ivica knew a cove along the shore beyond the village. Hiding in the rocks of a reef 50 ft. out was a giant conger eel. For years the men of Bol had tried to catch it and had failed. Every day after the younger men had rowed off to the fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always...
...Ivica was as stubborn as the eel. He had a big hook made specially for him by the village blacksmith. Discarding the useless line, he tied his hook to a thin steel wire and sat down on the rocks to wait. Ivica grew drowsy in the warm sun, looped the wire around his leg so that the eel's first tug would awaken him. That evening he did not return home. Ivica's sons found him, floating dead, in shallow water near the reef. The steel line was looped tightly around his leg. On the other...