Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major. Like many another veteran, he was dead set against living out the peace at a desk; unlike most vets, he had a few thousand pounds of capital. He spent some of it to make one dream come true: he bought a small island in the Hebrides, with salmon rights and a commercial fishery. It was while exploring the neighboring waters of his little kingdom that he first saw "a ripple with a dark center" breaking the surface-a ripple that grew into "a huge fin, a yard high and as long at the base," a "great black sail...
Sarasota, Fla. is the winter training ground of "The Greatest Show on Earth." It can also boast an elegant sideshow: one of the nation's greatest collections of Baroque art, housed in Sarasota's salmon-pink John and Mable Ringling Museum. The public favorite at the museum is Paolo Veronese's Rest on the Flight into Egypt...
...Explained Maytag's Santa Fe Manager John McCauley: "We're not interested in making money on food but in selling freezers." For buyers, it meant some notable savings: 17? for frozen peas v. 23? in Santa Fe chain stores, 32? for Brussels sprouts v. 41?, 68? for salmon fillets...
...touch was fugitive: yet how sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches and Finn for gaffing salmon in a shallow stream on the family estate...
...baboons retreated, took to coming out at night to get revenge. Salmon and his men installed electric flare lamps along the runway to scare them off, but the baboons thought they were forest fires. One night a ghostly army of the creatures, led by an aged and skilled tactician, sneaked out of the forest and raced across the open to the flare lamps. They smashed at the fires with sticks and stones, swung at them with hairy fists, howling in warlike fury all the while. "It was some night," reported Manager Salmon dolefully. And it was enough. Last week Manager...