Word: shrimped
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...head of Japan's Fisheries Agency Research Department, he went to a fisheries conference in Washington. There he heard about brine-shrimp eggs, on which American fanciers feed finicky tropical fish. When he fed the eggs to infant prawns back in Japan, he brought them safely through infancy into reasonably hardy youth...
...yellowish-brown Skeletonema plankton that have been grown in filtered sea water doped with chemicals. Other kinds of plankton, also specially cultured, carry them through the next stage. When they are one-quarter-inch long, they graduate to outdoor tanks and are fed clam eggs and larvae or brine-shrimp eggs. Then they move to the salt ponds, where they grow to delicious maturity on chopped trash fish and are fit for conspicuous consumption at elaborate geisha parties...
...three days the 67-ft. shrimp boat Ala drifted eastward through the Florida Straits, nudged along by the Gulf Stream. Its diesel engines had burned out, its radio was powerless, it was taking water. The two Negro shrimpers out of Florida's Fort Myers stood knee-deep in water, bailing for their lives. Near dusk, a MIG jet out of Cuba swooped toward the boat...
...long history of the cold war, there have been many more provocative incidents. But the reaction to the shrimp boat incident served to show how high U.S. tensions have risen about Cuba. Cried Democratic House Speaker John McCormack: "An act of aggression." Said Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd: "A shocking thing." Declared Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell: "An act of piracy. I would favor a policy of hot pursuit on any attacking MIGs. I would follow them back to Cuba...
...Committee. Among the President's guests: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, and, of course, the most prominent Negro members of the Administration-Robert C. Weaver, head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Carl Rowan, Ambassador-designate to Finland. Menu: shrimp Creole, curried chicken, ham, turkey, and two kinds of punch, not counting the political kind...