Word: shrimped
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...regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S. It rises from a maze of flowing springs and meanders 22 miles across a meadow south of the Sawtooth Mountains. Its rainbows grow so big (up to a record twelve pounds) because of an abundance of freshwater shrimp for them to feed on. Its channels are clear and shallow; a shadow cast across the water is enough warning for its wary rainbows...
...guests ate their way through shrimp cocktail, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, mixed vegetables, coffee, before the confusion* began to clear a little. A Congressman noticed a tiny typewritten card almost hidden by the roses. He nudged the guest on his left. The nudging passed around the table like a ripple. The luncheon was in honor of the stranger, Sir Frederick Bain, no G-man, but president of the Federation of British Industries, which represents about 80% of British manufacturing...
...make the shrimp test," was the way General George C. Marshall's wife, Katherine, described one of her social duties. At parties she serves the Secretary of State as a sort of poison-taster, she explained. Anything with shrimp in it makes him pass out cold...
Behind the discreet curtains of the cafes, crowds jam the tables drinking wine or coffee and eating little plates of grilled shrimp or fried baby octopus tentacles. Silent, grey-coated policemen stand discreetly in the background with little to do. Order is so perfect that Spaniards-against all their temperament-wait for the green light before they cross the streets...
...Shrimp. We have it, but it's too high. I wouldn't buy. Regular 20? size...