Word: skiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alaska Seas (Paramount) takes its audience salmon fishing under the Pole, but the cinematic catch is not spectacular. Robert Ryan sells one fishing syndicate out to another. For excitement, there is net raiding by night, skiff jousting on the black northern water with searchlight and rifle. In the end. Ryan loses what he wants (Jan Sterling) and gets what he deserves under an icefall. Sadly, the picture fails in 85 minutes to transmit a satisfying image of the "thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice." The icecap of the world, as shown here, is no more awesome than a refrigerator head...
...Test. In Baton Rouge, asked why he had rowed some 2,000 miles down the Mississippi from Minnesota in an open skiff, Jeweler Matthew M. Bakula, 72, told reporters: "I wanted to show my family I was no sissy...
...vast cloud of black smoke billowed out of the crater, almost from the spot where they had waded in the lava dust. It rose to a great height; then its steam condensed and fell as a scalding deluge of muddy rain. Richards and Walker escaped in a skiff, rowing madly, and took refuge on a tuna boat...
...eldest member of the Cheever family is tied to la buoy in Buzzard's Bay. She is a fifteen foot Hereshoff sailboat which first tasted sak water in 1898. confessing to a great sentimental attachment for the skiff, Cheever doubts that he'll ever give it up. "I guess I'm sort of like an auto enthusiast with an antique...
...best boatmen in Newfoundland danced their craft among the whales and the long spiked lances stabbed out, turning the frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water line, but the skiff stayed in the drive. Ashore, 12-year-old Charlie Williams thrust a lance into a beached whale. The din was terrible: clanking tin cans, shouts from fishermen, screams from women on the beach and a frantic pounding of whale tails on water. Blubber for the Plant. Examining the carcasses, the fishermen...