Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bluefish & Shark. Conservation experts at the course were careful to point out that, for all the improvements in tackle, they have little fear that streams or lakes will ever be fished out by sportsmen. The more fish caught, they maintained, the more the survivors can find food to grow to maturity. "Even state laws limiting the size and number of fish that can be taken are unnecessary in most cases," said North Carolina State's wildlife biologist, Dr. Ed Lowry. In almost all species, prolific egg production eventually results in far more adult fish than can be taken...
...They Hanged My Saintly Billy"-were uttered by Dr. Palmer's mother. It was the death of a racing pal, John Parsons Cook, which brought her Billy-saintly or otherwise-to book. The friends' financial transactions were more snarled up than the accounts of a waterfront loan shark, but it seems that Dr. Palmer stood to gain by Cook's death. One night they met in The Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, to toast the victory of a nag called Polestar. The scene, as Graves engraves it, is worthy of Cruikshank. "Will you take another glass?" asked Cook...
...such as it is-could be made by more articulate and more respectable Southerners if Wallace wanted to report genuine controversy instead of basking in the glare of burning crosses. At his present rate, Wallace may work himself up to a hard-hitting expose of the man-eating shark...
Throughout all the assaults of doubting newsmen. Bush remained good-naturedly sure of himself. "Gee, at first I thought nothing of this," he said, as if surprised by the attention. "Queer things happen to us pilots. Why, down in Sydney, there was that business of the shark . . . but let's not go into that...
...pressure, the Dominicans have produced their own explanation for Murphy's disappearance. They say that another airlines pilot, a Dominican named Octavio de la Maza, "committed suicide" last month in a Ciudad Trujillo jail cell after leaving a note confessing he had knocked Murphy off a cliff into shark-infested waters. When the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ciudad Trujillo implied doubt of their story, by testing the shower pipe from which De la Maza was supposed to have hanged himself, the furious Dominicans complained to Washington...