Word: lobstering
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...cake (with only one candle), Happy gave her husband a blue sailing shirt and two cashmere sweaters, and the kids gave their new stepfather birthday cards. Then for six days the New York Governor relaxed in the privacy of his vacation retreat and indulged an irresistible yen for Maine lobster-at almost every meal except breakfast...
...house labels that account for 90% of all its merchandise. To get products to label as its own, Prisunic's centralized buying agency roams far and near for deals, bringing back Italian sweaters (one of the best sellers) and Red Chinese tablecloths, Yugoslav canned tuna and Cuban canned lobster. About 55% of Prisunic's sales are in clothing and housewares, the rest in food...
...only he can. He dispatched a sort of force de flap - the fast, 2,750-ton destroyer escort Tartu-to watch over the fishing boats. An "act of hostility." cried Brazilian Foreign Minister Hermes Lima. "The attitude of France is inadmissible, and our government will not retreat. The lobster will not be caught...
...French embassy was smeared with ink and tar. and someone painted "Lobsters yes, De Gaulle no" on a downtown wall. Brazilian diplomats boycotted a dinner aboard the liner France when it docked at Rio, sales of French wines slumped, and Carnival revelers dressed as lobsters danced a new lobster samba. Inevitably, in newspaper cartoons o grande Carlos was depicted as a long-nosed lobster...
...their warships maneuvered miles apart. France and Brazil at week's end seemed in no danger of trading shots. But Frenchmen, who each year eat 2,500 tons of lobster, nearly a third of it imported from such lobstering grounds as Brazil's, were forced to ponder an unsettling choice of loyalties-palate or patrie-and ask themselves, what price grandeur...