Word: limpets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freeze in 1947 damaged the beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters...
...anyone in Hollywood, the explanation was superfluous. At 9:30 each weekday morning, every Hollywood press-agent who values his professional life dials Crestview 1-4222, the Beverly Hills home and office of Columnist Parsons. However long it takes, he clings to the phone like a limpet until he gets through to her, for he must show his good faith. If he doesn't, Louella may take Borgia vengeance...