Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horizon, but not without occasional whimsical excursions into island fun. ?No one could be really sure what would appear on April Fools' Day. Allen once ran a great hoax about the remains of a Viking Ship being uncovered in the sands off Waimanalo Beach, a completely phony yarn that other island newspapers cheerfully picked up and ran straight. The paper periodically loved to "discover" enormous new volcanoes rising from the sea off some isolated island beach...
Sleuths of the Department for Struggle, etc. raided a shop operated by one Anna Lazaryeva, discovered $9,250 worth of yarn, 150 sweaters and $7,500 in cash; a few doors away a second shop was discovered producing 100 blouses a day. The operators, said Krokodil, suffer from no shortage: state textile-industry employees swipe huge amounts of wool from government plants, resell it at a tidy profit to black-marketeers...
...delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part of his finger had arrived back inside, tried to re-enter Candlestick by telling a gateman his story. The reply: "That's the best yarn I've heard today." Turned away, Belloc got in a cab. Meanwhile, the clinic realized that it had no one to put the finger on. The clinic dispatched a motorcycle patrolman, with finger in Dixie cup, after Belloc's cab. Finger retrieved, Belloc went to a hospital...
...carload of Cubans, who could have been waiting for a pickup. But after Shergales turned up at Havana police headquarters, well dressed and confident, Castro's newspaper, Revolution, dropped the whole story. One theory was that the flight was faked to give Castro one more small-plane yarn to howl about; another, that it was double-agentry...
...untamed highlands of East Africa, where his people had only recently discovered the uses of the wheel. He was born to illiterate parents on the dried cow-dung floor of a grass-roofed hut on the sisal (hemp) estate of Sir William Northrup McMillan, who, a local yarn has it, won his 34,000 acres of Kenya highlands with a throw of the dice in Nairobi's Norfolk Hotel...