Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brown, 45, and Roy Sprague, 33, along with a growing number of other watermen, harvest oysters in person-by diving for them. While Brown mans the helm of his 46-ft. work boat Frisky, Sprague plunges beneath the surface of the bay and sends the oysters topside in a wire basket. "It ain't easy," says the soft-spoken Sprague. "But it sure beats long-tonging...
With luck, more stumbling blocks in the form of congressional animosity will clutter the Administration's path, forcing it to the pragmatic realization that a change in course is necessary. Salvador seems one such potential trip wire. This little book has just the right mix of passion and reflection to get people angry, and then make them think. That's really...
Julieann was the least manageable of Sidney Kraftsow's 70 Brahmans. It was her terrific "craving for citrus fruit," says Kraftsow, that led her to leap over (and even limbo under) 4-ft. barbed-wire fences or bound across her 5-ft.-wide concrete cattle guard. "She was really a menace," he says. Fed up, Kraftsow sold the cow to Hayes for $350, a bargain price...
...boys were taken to court and tried for the crime of rape. Fuzzy was kept in a wire cage during the trial, at which the two were found guilty. They were imprisoned for two years, until their lawyer, Conrad Lynn, could persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to personally arrange an intervention by President Eisenhower...
...third participant in traffic handling, Weinstock, who is a student in the extension school, is deaf, but he can pick up Morse code signals over the wire...