Word: turboter
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...spirit that moved Eire to declare her independence moved two of her western isles to assert their own independence of Eire. For 40 years the 200 fisherfolk of Turn and Turbot have maintained an "untaxable republic," refusing to pay taxes to County Galway on the mainland...
...hide in, "hurricane" decks from which trapped villains may escape, providing scissor-minded child prodigies like Desmond Tester have not been tampering with the parachutes. In the "B" deck dining salon gourmets from Scotland Yard (like John Loder) may have their Martinis mixed, not shaken, and may pick at turbot after having had a try at some clear soup, probably terrapin. The fare will be ?65, the flying time, 18 hours...
...whom is just dawning the appalling realization that life has no more excitement in store for her. Her children are at school, her husband is concerned only with his paper business and the most momentous event of her day is the decision as to whether she will order turbot or sole from the fish man. An almost accidental kiss from her sister's fiance makes her marriage suddenly seem so woefully unromantic that Caroline goes into hysterics. The final curtain does not indicate that the Allertons' domestic problems have been solved but Caroline has learned the lesson...
...Turbot with lobster sauce Kentish chicken pudding (made from an inherited family recipe of Elizabethan days, and earlier...
Samoans catch flying fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...