Word: blubbering
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...football fan who doesn't call a spade a concave instrument for delving or flensing whale blubber knows that the New York Giants and Jets are sleep-walking through the NFL season and show little sign of regaining consciousness...
...Actress Gloria Swanson, 76, describe her marriage proposal from Writer William Dufty, 60. Married five times (among her husbands: Actor Wallace Beery), she first met Dufty more than a decade ago when he was an assistant editor on the New York Post. "He looked like a Buddha, all blubber," she says. Swanson, a natural-food fanatic, helped prod Dufty off sweets and onto a macrobiotic diet-and last week married him in Manhattan. "He's a convert of mine," boasted Gloria as she prepared for her honeymoon, a three-week tour to promote Dufty's new health-food...
...proud to see women take their place in music. However, one cannot regard Sarah Caldwell as anything but a big blob of blubber...
...amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...
...bowhead today is a hard-to-find mammal, and so indeed should be a number of writers who blubber over the fate of the whale. But not Everett S. Allen. In Children of the Light, Allen, a New Bedfordman and writer for that town's redoubtable Standard Times, has put together a marvelous book about everything that went into the financing, building and provisioning of whaling ships, the men who sailed and lost them, the "overweening pursuit of wealth" that drove them to riches and ruin. Allen writes poetically but with a naturalist's restraint about the climate...