Word: swordfishing
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...almost incredible. The narrow gulf between the east coast of the peninsula and the western shore of Mexico itself is a great natural trap for billions of game fish that are swept into the area by Pacific currents. The place teems with black, blue and striped marlin, tuna, swordfish. cabrilla, barracuda, yellowtail, bonito, dolphin and roosterfish...
...especially since the death of her companion, Journalist Margaret Jourdain, in 1951, she is no recluse. She is a theatergoer and relishes the Angry Young Men. Modern art, on the other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description of an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel, except that the family would be a shark...
...clarinet, oboe, with a discreet French horn on hand as well. Leader McKay plays nifty bassoon, fast and, when necessary, dirty. The rest of the crew has shrieking fun with sound effects (What a Way to Run a Railroad!}, and swinging fun with Those That Live by the Swordfish Die by the Sword fish...
...counter. The next was an eleven-year-old boy who kept his head low to hide his tears: a thin girl appeared behind him and put her arm comfortingly on his shoulder. These three were joined by a broad-shouldered young man whose machine-knitted jersey celebrated a leaping swordfish. then by a pretty young Negro woman in her best clothes with a sleeping baby in her arms. Suddenly there were too many to count, standing on the trampled grass in the blaze of lights. Some of them wept quietly, some of them stared at the ground and some looked...
Convair is already in developmental production of the Navy's new delta-wing F2Y Sea-Dart. A supersonic jet fighter with skis for landing on water, it skitters ashore looking like an ungainly swordfish (see cut). Convair expects the new design to combine land-based performance with water-based versatility, create a "revolution" in naval operations. Current backlog: more than $1 billion...