Word: blubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current would even catch whales, forcing them to swim right up to the maw of a whale ship. When the whales arrived, he suggests, the current could be intensified, stunning them temporarily. Then the whalers or whale inspectors could measure each leviathan, noting its sex and its depth of blubber. Large, fat males could be hauled aboard. The young, the thin and the female could be set free with the crew's apologies...
...then he had struck up an acquaintance with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and had been reading Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. Melville was so fired by such investigations of the human spirit that he decided to transform his own whaling story into something grander. He would "turn blubber into poetry...
...version, directed by documentary-minded Henry Hathaway (The House on 92nd Street), might have been a real humdinger in the same tradition. Unfortunately, it rarely gets much nearer to a real whale than a few tons of refrigerated blubber and some background footage of Pacific whales lazing about off the coast of Southern California. To offset this handicap, canny Skipper Hathaway has concentrated on character study, backed by careful casting and straightforward camera work...
Four nights later, a brawler from Pennsylvania's coal mines got his big chance in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Joe Baksi had shed a lot of blubber (from 257 Ibs. down to 210½), but he was still 32½ pounds heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati. For most of the ten rounds, Ezzard buzzed around Baksi like a bumblebee around a bull. He kept stinging Baksi with lefts & rights that didn't seem to hurt much-though he opened a bad cut above his left eye. At 2:33 of the eleventh...
...simple Eskimo, best known for igloos and blubber-eating, may have been a bearer of culture to the New World. The Eskimos, says Curator Helge Larsen of Denmark's National Museum, once had a highly developed art, religion and social system. Perhaps they passed on a little of their culture before they lost...