Word: spearing
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...repeated conversations, slapdash structure, and contrived melodrama. The cruel Memlik Pasha, who in Mountolive "never smiled," is brought onstage in Clea "smiling gently." A girl named Fosca is introduced only so that she may be strangely murdered, ,. and Clea herself is horribly and pointlessly maimed by a fishing spear...
...water. So equipped, swimmers can peer for happy hours into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico or forest-bound lakes in Wisconsin, study the toadfish that fusses like an old lady off Long Island. Ducking beneath the surface, the strong-lunged pry abalone from the California shallows, or spear unwary fish that hover near the surface. Experts like Miami's great Pinder brothers. Art, Fred and Don (see SHOW BUSINESS ), can easily go as deep as 70 ft., stay under for up to 60 sec., and have individually landed catches as big as an 804-lb. jewfish...
Exploring their jungle, Cousteau and Tailliez learned to spear fish with curtain rods and knitting needles. Says Cousteau: "It fascinated me to do something that seemed impossible." But, like other little knots of skindivers around the world, they were still tethered to the surface by the need...
...help with the fees. But this shock was to give him his political start. He took a free, three-year public-health course in Nairobi to qualify as a sanitation inspector with the city government, and began slipping off to hear the fiery political speeches of Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the famed Kikuyu leader. As a city official, Tom Mboya noted bitterly, his job paid $30 a month for work that brought white inspectors $140, and the whites drove official cars and wore street suits, while Tom was expected to go about his duties on a bicycle and dressed...
Along a narrow trail in the jungle of darkest New Guinea, pith helmet set at a jaunty angle, strides the lithe young figure of Errol Flynn. Suddenly the dark wall of foliage opens, and a hail of spears comes streaming through. Ambush! The native bearer next to Flynn falls dead with a spear through his belly, and Flynn is struck in the foot by a poisoned arrow. Not a whit dismayed, the hero leaps behind a tree, whips out his revolver and starts firing. With the first shot he brings down one of the nasty savages. The rest of them...