Word: catfish
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DIED. JIM ("CATFISH") HUNTER, 53, Hall of Fame pitcher; of Lou Gehrig's disease; in Hertford, N.C. During his 15-year career with the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees, Hunter won five World Series, pitched a perfect game, won a Cy Young Award and became the first multimillion-dollar player when he declared free agency in 1974. "He taught us how to win," said his onetime boss George Steinbrenner...
RECOVERING. JIM ("CATFISH") HUNTER, 53, Hall of Fame pitcher for the Oakland A's and New York Yankees and winner of five World Series; from injuries after he hit his head earlier this month; in Greenville, N.C. Hunter was diagnosed with ALS last year...
Accordingly, their vision of nature is as realistic as it is romantic. Kennedy says he has seen an adorable-looking otter torture a catfish by biting off its scales on one side, making it swim in circles...
...shooting ends this compassionate, clear-eyed, expertly written first novel, a death that several lives have been stumbling toward for a quarter-century. Ned Rose is the title figure, a no-hoper in early middle age, who checks the oxygen levels in the 16 ponds of a Mississippi catfish farm. Daisy is his estranged sister. They are poor and white, though not white trash. Mack Bell owns the farm and owns Ned too. Mack has labor troubles. He summons Ned, as he has been doing since high school. Retribution explodes in the blast of a gun. Daisy, a figure strong...
...years, was expanding to the nation's towboat fleet. Within months, Wilkinson and his colleague Karen Cox were staring at a pastoral fiefdom encompassing the Ohio River, part of the Cumberland and the Mississippi from Greenville, Miss., up to Lock 27 above St. Louis--1,808 miles as the catfish swims...