Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...palace. Even the fishing trips must have become a dispiriting confirmation of the mortality he hated to acknowledge, a further assault on the pride he took in past feats of skill and stamina. In 1957 he had been named national amateur fishing champion for catching a 712-lb. tuna with rod and reel, the largest ever landed by rod in Spanish waters. He also boasted of shooting 8,420 partridges in one year...
...their rebates, are treating them as found money to be spent on trips, gifts and a variety of luxuries. Chicago Travel Agent Jill Jahnke, 29, is using her $100 check to help pay for a trip to Nassau. "I guess I'll still be eating chicken and tuna fish when I get back," she quips...
...regime that replaced Allende (whom the CIA is widely accused of helping to overthrow) and Venezuela angry about a new U.S. law that denies preferential trade treatment to members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Among other recent problems: Ecuador has renewed its sniping at U.S. tuna fishermen, and Colombia and Venezuela restored relations with Cuba despite U.S. opposition...
...many supermarkets, the usually frustrating chore of shopping for food has in recent weeks taken on something of the serendipitous air of an Easter-egg hunt. After years of seemingly nonstop prices, the costs of a growing number of items-eggs, mayonnaise, turkey, tuna, canned fruit-are actually turning down. Though the evidence is still spotty, the long and painful surge in food prices at last appears to be waning...
Hugh Sidey's comments concerning the week's activities at the White House [March 3] sickened me. Does Mr. Sidey suggest that the President, Senators, Congressmen, economists, et al., subsist on tuna casserole until solutions to the nation's economic ills are found...