Word: barbless
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...fishing is kept low impact: anglers must use barbless hooks and release every catch. At the end of the day, when Craig's blue-and-white chopper whup-whups up the valley to lift you off the sandbar, only your bootprints remain. And you take home nothing but a tired casting arm and the memory of some of the greatest fly-fishing you will ever experience...
...counter, Gore's image, the Buddhist temple, the nonsense about inventing the Internet, an annoyingly sarcastic woman's voiceover saying, there's dumb old Al reinventing himself again (yeah, right, like we wouldn't notice) - is a lame, counterproductive effort, foolishly half-hearted and barbless...
...aftermath, Yasser Arafat said the U.S. was guilty of "cowboy logic." It seemed to Americans an oddly flat and barbless phrase, something like the boiler-plate invective ("capitalist roaders," "unreliable elements") for which Communist regimes have a dreary genius. Terrorism is a haunted house, theater in the shadows. It needs its ugly special effects. Terror depends, so to speak, upon absolute artistic control. But suddenly in the Achille Lauro case, the house lights came up, and Arafat found himself blinking uncomfortably at the audience. No wonder his rhetoric sounded lame...
Often praised as an adroit practitioner of the soft sell, Fund Raiser McCord, 64, prefers to think of himself as a man "fishing with a barbless hook." He says his technique "does not stem from any personal bias, but simply out of my unshakable belief in the philosophy of using civilized language for a civil purpose' According to McCord, college fund raisers should "act as though we were an extension of, and not simply a blunt instrument for, our alma mater...
...lean-to is another miserable failure," noted Boyd on the second day. "We need some kind of food," he wrote on the third, telling how he fashioned Sharon's ring into a barbless hook and caught seven trout. Breathlessly, Boyd reported the discovery of a set of deer horns, a hunter's cache of cooking gear, a squirrel's cache of nuts-and described a family feast of frogs' legs provided...