Word: barracudas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with cook). "I've never met a snoek face to face," said Food Minister John Strachey, announcing the purchase, "so I can't tell you much about it except that it's four feet long and slender." But the dictionary defined snoek as a form of barracuda, and Strachey's press conference broke up under the firm impression that snoek was a maritime menace. A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek as the "Tiger of the Seas...
...raced to a natural history museum. Ah, yes, said a learned authority there, the South African snoek (not to be confused with the basslike Gulf of Mexico snook or robalo) is indeed a barra-couta, a cousin of the mild-mannered mackerel and no relation to the barbarous barracuda...
Confronted with this ichthyological news, a Food Ministry press relations officer croaked: "Oh, my God!" and promised to call back. "Well, at least," he reported gloomily several hours later, "the Food Minister had never actually called a snoek a barracuda...
Aggie can keep up with the boys at drinking and cussing, and sometimes does. She rarely loses her temper, but when she does the effect is spectacular; she once beat a city editor over the head with a cold, dead barracuda (TIME, July 29). Her hair usually looks as though it had been combed by a vacuum cleaner, and her clothes are often baggy. Except for a secret, feminine and justifiable pride in her Jegs, she has no time for vanity. The divorced mother of two grown children, 45-year-old Aggie likes to cook (her specialty: spaghetti), but would...
...fishing or leave it alone; but Florida boosters would have considered themselves betrayed if he did no fishing. Flanked by his chief of staff, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (who likes to fish), he set out in a crash boat to wet a line. His catch: a 5-lb. barracuda, a grouper and a mackerel...