Word: shrimping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PUTTING THE WORDS "Supreme Court" and "campaign" together yields a phrase as oxymoronic as "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp." By requiring Justices to grovel before the people in order to garner votes, California--and most other states, for that matter--violates one of the most crucial tenets of American constitutionalism. For the judiciary to check and restrain the other two branches of government, judges must be free from the pressures of electoral politics. To elect judges--and thereby force them to be responsive to the whims of the electorate--is to sacrifice long-term justice to the political trends...
...dangerous. You've got somebody 1 ft. away, and you go down, you take three boats on the rocks with you probably." Racca said that it "isn't the Cameron shrimpers against the lake shrimpers. It's people against people. They're all scared they'll let one shrimp...
Through the summer the Louisiana law forbids shrimping in "inside" waters. This is to protect the breeding grounds in the marshes and lakes, to assure there will be something to harvest each year when open season comes round. The shrimpers in these parts run out into the gulf at night, turn their bows inshore just at the designated line that divides "outside" and "inside" water, drop their nets and wait for the outgoing tide to bring the shrimp into their pockets. Here the line is just outside the entrance to the Calcasieu Ship Channel. It is called...
...hours to make new ones. I lost five prime nights during a full moon," he says. It is dark now, the water as black as used motor oil, and the lights on the rocking boats describe a skyline suffering slippage. No one is taking in much shrimp this night, least of all Eddie, whose nets snare more flounder and speckled trout than anything...
...book is loaded with this sort of gush, although it is hard to believe that Conroy does not know the difference between good and silly writing. Elsewhere, he can make one's mouth water with straightforward description: "I caught a ten-pound sea bass and stuffed it with shrimp and fresh crabmeat, then cooked it over slow coals...