Word: shoaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just to make sure." By 6:30, he has gobbled down break fast, swallowed a Dramamine pill, and scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat, headed for the Jack Spot, a ten-square-mile expanse of shoal water with one simple claim to fame: there, each summer, congregates the densest concentration of white marlin in the world...
...know-how to read it if they did. The Coast Guard crew at Stepping Stones Light Station off New York City, where Long Island Sound meets the East River, spends a large part of the summer frantically waving a towel to warn sloppy skippers off the nearby reef. The shoal is covered with only a few inches of water, but extends for more than half a mile of deceptively open water. And a great many latter-day skippers operate on the theory that what you can't see can't hurt you. "They...
...strives to brighten the lives of 15,000 retired employees in Britain. Unilever's Pensioners' Welfare Organization grew accidentally out of Britain's withholding tax. Writing its retired employees in 1944 to explain the new tax, the company got back what one official describes as "a shoal of letters" that had little to do with taxes. An elderly lady wrote a four-page note that ended, "I don't know why I've written all this. I just wanted someone to talk to." Deciding that other retired employees or their widows might want someone...
...cool and responsive woman, Elizabeth lost the use of her legs after the death of her father and then her sister, walks on crutches and awaits-or, as Freud suggests, looks forward to-a wheelchair. At first she is mockingly certain that he can find no cure where a shoal of specialists have failed. Then she warms to him until-sympathizing, badgering, cajoling, but endlessly probing her mind-he probes too far; for she, meanwhile-talking, laughing, sparring, flirting, recollecting-blurts out too much. She then backs away, but at length her guilty feelings are tormentedly rooted...