Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only astound--or dismay--other Vounteers. On their first day in town they politely demurred at the suggestion that they rent a spacious balcony apartment in town and instead set up house in a beach front dwelling of bricksand bamboo, located two miles away. The choice amazed local fishermen. "But only poor people live here," said one, unable to comprehend why gringos chose to reside in his barrio...
...oral tradition of Jesus' teachings, had a pristine simplicity. As Paul put it in II Corinthians, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself." But Paul himself, as much Greek as Jew, used a different and more powerful language to proclaim Christ than did Jesus' simple fishermen followers in Jerusalem. And the more Christianity escaped from its Palestinian setting into the broader Mediterranean world, the more it turned to non-Hebraic languages and concepts to convey its central truths...
...Falkland Islands are one of the world's remoter causes. Plunked like stones some 300 miles off South America's southeast coast, they are inhabited by penguins, sheep and 2,200 farmers and fishermen who live in a cold and constant drizzle. But a cause they...
Died. Louis Marron, 67, dean of U.S. big game fishermen, a burly Florida oilman, who in 1953 off the coast of Chile boated a 1,182-lb. broadbill swordfish, at the time the biggest game fish of any kind to be landed on rod and reel and still tops for a species widely regarded as the strongest and most difficult; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...