Word: shellfishing
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...Japanese scientists tested a long list of objects, from spinach to deer horns, for strontium 90, and found a wide variation. Tea plants, for instance, contained 30 "units"* while spinach had only 3.8. Rice, all important in Japan, was comparatively high (10.4 units), but shellfish from Tokyo Bay had only .04 units. Highest count was from tuna caught in Bikini waters in 1956: 53.5 units. The scientists also examined the ashes of 20 persons, taken from burial urns, and found that their strontium 90 count varied from .06 units for an elderly man who lived in Niigata, to 4.1 units...
...feed her canned clam chowder. Said she: "I never thought that I would live to see the day when a chimpanzee earned more money than most humans and was sent on a grand tour. But then, what can you expect of a people who make soup out of shellfish and boiled milk...
...covering the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Salote of Tonga (TIME, Dec. 28), Richard MacMillan recorded his choice menu: 4,200 roasted suckling pigs, 2,100 chickens, baked taro and yams, fresh pineapple, watermelon and bananas, shellfish and coconut milk...
Surprisingly, milk was indicated as the carrier of disease in only three outbreaks throughout the U.S., and only three minor cases were traced to milk products: one each to cheese, ice cream and eggnog. Still more surprising, only one outbreak (66 cases) involved shellfish. Otherwise, the old standbys in the spoilage and upset-stomach routine were to blame: cream-filled pastries, ham, turkey, chicken and tuna fish salad...
...second only to the Communist Huks in defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs, shellfish, washed down with beer, and a skittish sip of the strange brown beverage (Coca-Cola) brought for the occasion by Magsaysay...