Word: trawlers
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...hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with the sickening image of a sinking trawler...
...Papa's got a brand new shirt--or two. One with a facsimile of Ernest Hemingway's birth certificate and the other with this year's annual commemorative portrait. Perfect for cleaning your trawler...
...finished yet. Dorry's campaign took hold last year when fishermen along the East Coast joined to protest a 369-ft. factory trawler, the Atlantic Star. U.S.-Dutch owned, the Star was being refitted in Norway to catch herring and mackerel. The two species are food for cod, tuna, birds, whales and dolphins, and could be a vital link in rebuilding the Atlantic food chain...
...budding politician (moderate to rabid Republican, we're guessing). But what usually comes across is the falseness, not of the contestants forced to reach for cheerful profundity, but of the format. Says humorist Harry Shearer, host of the syndicated weekly radio treasure Le Show and an avid trawler in the backwaters of pop culture: "I believe that if the serious guys on television had to discuss current affairs the way Miss America contestants do--gussied up in evening wear while an orchestra plays Isn't She Lovely?, and showing us their backsides after they finish--we'd have a better...
...March 9, a team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, or 'Mounties'--the Canadian F.B.I.) attempted to board the Spanish fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...