Word: mullet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took, as a matter of historic fact, more strong men than the Wehrmacht could provide. Audie took to soldiering like a shark to mullet. He was cool and quick, and when his Irish was up he laid about him like Kevin o' the Bogs. The picture makes this plain in combat scenes which could never have been napalmed off as the real thing without Audie. Credibility, burns in his mild face and gentle gestures as he moves through scenes of battle raptly, like a man reliving them with wonder and something of reverence. And just for a nervous instant...
Loyal Key Westers, fearing that such incidents might frighten away tourists, insisted that they had never heard of barracuda bothering anyone on the shallow beaches. What the Secret Service men saw, they said, might have been mullet, which are no more dangerous than un-swallowed goldfish...