Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salmon & Secrets. In 1946 a Communist friend turned him over to a Tass correspondent named Anisimov, who plied him with champagne at his home, treated him to cozy téte-à-téte dinners of jellied Volga fish, Siberian smoked salmon, choice vodka, potent Swedish export beer and voluble persuasion. After three years of this, Ernest was considered ready for espionage...
...bare concrete pool on the campus of the University of Washington, 15 silver salmon swam happily last week, their fancies turned to thoughts of mating and spawning. They were historic fish-the first salmon to return from the sea to an artificial pool...
...names I particularly wanted, so I kept my old name. I was alone with the fat priest; it was all very quickly and formally done, while someone at a children's service muttered in another chapel. Then we shook hands and I went off to a salmon tea." Even so, he couldn't help feeling that "I had taken up the thread of life from very far back, from so far back as innocence...
...visit to the province of the Picts. He came to the river Nesa (the Ness) and found that an aquatic monster had just bitten and killed a Pict. So the saint ordered another Pict to dive into the water. The monster rose to take him as a salmon takes a fly, but the saint made the sign of the Cross "and the monster was terrified and fled away more quickly than if it had been dragged by ropes...
Sweet Gum & Burnt Cork. On the Pacific Coast, nights had turned cold, and beachcombers gathered salt-crusted chunks of driftwood to add color to the flames of the winter's fireplaces. The salmon fisherman clumped along river banks for the fall run, and hunters, oiling their deer rifles, anxiously eyed the .forest fires that crackled in the summer-dry mountains. To the south, Los Angeles sweltered in 92° heat and awaited its first sight of a World Series by television...