Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-was happily at work transferring machine guns, pistols and other trappings of rebellion from an outboard-motor boat to a shrimp boat...
...Vice President, Clemente Marroquin Rojas, in his newspaper La Hora. "You may slide downhill." He was addressing General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 63, Guatemala's headstrong President, who was treating the country to a double dose of wacky crises. Six weeks ago, to protect native Guatemalan shrimp from poaching by foreign trawlers, Ydígoras sent out P-51s on a strafing run that killed three Mexican fishermen (TIME, Jan. 19) and caused a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries. Last week Ydígoras brought on a school strike at home by appointing his cousin...
Probably ninety per cent of the American populace think the only Chinese food is the Cantonese. Happily this is not so, and such dishes as Peking ravioli, shrimp on toast, and Shanghai duck are delicious evidence that the Mandarin is just as good, if not better. Until now northern Chinese fare has been as rare in discovery as it is superb in taste, and local epicures have had to travel many miles in search...
...whether by rickshaw, Volks-wagen or the Belmont bus, to the Fresh Pond rotary and you will find Cambridge's own mecca for fanciers of Mandarin treats such as Moo Shi pork, and hot and sour Peking soup. A dish that particularly recommends itself is Joyce Chen special shrimp--a specialty of the house, of course, because it bears the name of the proprietor...
Most frustrating to Thach's goblin killers is the sea's own natural cacophony. Antisubmarine-warfare hands are trained to differentiate the sound of a sub from that of a destroyer or a rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach...