Word: piranha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong and slippery that it is virtually impossible to handle. One specimen, placed in a 70-gal. tank with other fish, promptly attacked and killed a fish of equal size. "All other fish in the tank gave the Clarias a wide berth," the scientists noted, "a piranha being no exception...
...love of a young Negro couple. Fine in theory, but why did he have to do it in a story that not even the most gullible honky would buy? Poitier cast himself as a slick hustler in a continental-cut tux who spouts fluent Japanese, keeps a pet piranha, sits in on bongos and serves as baby sitter for a brood of Negro children, while running a trucking concern by day and a casino-on-wheels by night. Abbey Lincoln as Ivy is a sweet gal, but for a low-salaried suburban house maid, she sports a wardrobe of high...
...compulsion, an almost existential need to dare the elements, combined with a lifelong love of physical exertion, prompted him to lead the first ascent of the Yukon's 14,000-ft. Mount Kennedy, named for his brother, and plunge, during a 1965 canoe trip down the Amazon, into piranha-infested waters. A group of Indians cried anxiously that he was risking his life. "Have you ever heard of a United States Senator being eaten by a piranha?" he asked, and swam...
...come off at midnight, you can find out who your new chums are, or join your old chums." In October the invitations went off, and suddenly Capote was swamped with pleading messages from those whom he had left out. "I feel like I fell into a whole mess of piranha fish," he moaned to Women's Wear Daily. Supposing someone tried to crash? He would have bouncers to throw them...
...piranha-fishing trip last month in the headwaters of the Amazon River confirmed my impressions. The ferocity with which these creatures went after the bait was remarkable. The hands of our Indian guides were covered with scars of old piranha bites. Upon catching one of these tiny demons, the guides immediately had to cut certain nerves about the piranha's mouth to prevent its biting...