Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squirrelly's Grouper, for example, takes place on Hatteras, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, and deals with a reclusive commercial fisherman who hauls in a record-breaking specimen, a Warsaw grouper the "size of an Oldsmobile." The narrator, who owns the local marina, relates all the subsequent excitement and then warns, "Now if you don't already know, this story winds up with a punch from so far out in left field there's just no way you can see it coming, but I can't apologize for that." Nor, given the artful conclusion, should he. Stolen Kiss moves...
Principato charges that every day for the past year his supervisor, Carol Wotschak, chief medical technologist at UHS, has put his mail into a specimen box containing human excrement. Wotschak declined to discuss the case...
...Certainly, I'm no physical specimen," he said...
...touching eagerness of converts leaves some veterans bemused. Gardening, they will tell you, is a vocation, not a gift, and requires work and experience to master and love. "I see these specimen trees coming down the highway from the nursery wrapped like Egyptian mummies," says Long Island Painter Robert Dash, "and I think, 'God, the gardening world has got out of hand...
According to Principato, his supervisor, Carol Wotschak, the chief medical technologist at UHS, has been putting his mail into a specimen box containing human excrement every day for the past year. Wotschak could not be reached for comment...