Word: sharked
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...speakers, Southerners almost to the man, habitually treat language as action, words as deeds. Roger Laird, the hero of Getting Ready, worries over his many and expensive failures to catch "a significant fish." Finally, some 30 miles south of Panama City, he manages to haul in a sand shark from the surf. Though it lacks the grandeur he had imagined, this experience proves exhilarating enough to lead him to his life's next great task. He moves to Dallas, builds a pair of 8-ft. stilts and wades around a local lake, screaming obscenities at the rich people in boats...
...will always find instruments to suit that predisposition. In a way, the Bomb may have curbed the killer instinct because of the immensity of its power. People will not, cannot use absolutely any weapons they choose anymore. But the instinct is there still, storming back and forth like a shark beyond the reef. Whatever fears the Bomb has brought, the fear of our murderous capacities is deeper. However monstrous our visions of the Bomb's future, they were only mirrors of what we did, and would probably do again, if we could get away alive. Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot...
...Starr, Reporter, an intrepid, curvy and impeccably clad journalist who talked her way into exotic assignments, dated hunks and abided no nonsense from her editor; in Sonoma County, Calif. Though criticized by some for being unrealistic ("Authenticity is something I always try to avoid," said Messick), her spy-chasing, shark-battling redhead inspired legions of young women headed for professional careers...
...learned so much from working with him as he tried to navigate through those shark-infested waters,” Murninghan added...
Sophomore attack Liz Gamble closed the half with consecutive scores, circling the goal like a shark sizing up its prey before sinking the unassisted first and picking up the second on a Hines assist...