Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feast began with sturgeon, smoked salmon and caviar on bliny (Russian pancakes). Vodka flowed, but no toasts were exchanged. After soup came partridge stuffed with wild rice. After the salad trailed bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind...
...Manufacturers Trust, the bank has already swallowed up six smaller banks, and with this merger has boosted its deposits from $219 million to $2.3 billion. Gibson, who works as hard as any of his banking colleagues, and at 68 plays harder than most of them, still finds time to salmon-fish and ski (see cut), was once Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's Meadow Brook Hounds. He has poured more than $300,000 of his own money into his home town of North Conway, N.H., to make it a leading ski center in the U.S. (TIME...
Some 20 wild creatures, from the crayfish to the moose, are caught in unguarded moments during each of the four seasons of the year. The camera looks aloft to watch hawks exchanging a dead mouse in midair, and under water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...
...Catt of Saint John, N.B. went fishing on the Miramichi River, where salmon are so numerous and eager that they have been known to attack a man wearing a bright necktie with a design of hand-painted trout flies. Catt had just settled down to fish when a white-bearded old man came along, spoke sadly of his yearning to catch one last salmon and asked to borrow the rod & line. Catt had barely handed over the tackle when a fighting salmon shot out of the water, twisting & turning the line around the old man's whiskers. Quick-thinking...
...Including lean meat, but excluding: meat fat animal lard, butter or whole milk; fatty fish such as salmon; egg yolk...