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Only two years ago the Miami Dolphins were drawing more laughs than their trained counterparts at the local Seaquarium. Winners of only 15 of 56 games in their first four seasons, the team needed help fast. In desperation, the normally tightfisted Dolphin owner, Joe Robbie, stole away-Coach Don Shula from the Baltimore Colts by offering him a $75,000 yearly salary and part ownership of the team. When Shula arrived in Miami in July to open training camp, Robbie was asked if he would give his new coach enough time to produce a winner. "Sure," came the answer...
...reflection of the most serious shortcoming of the Judeo-Christian belief, namely that it is legitimate for humans to ruthlessly exploit the animal and plant kingdoms presumably to increase the glory of the Lord. What makes Cardinal Villot and his followers think that a cheetah or a dolphin or a sequoia is less of a glory of God than the products of overpopulation: wars, crimes, drug addiction? Of what avail is freedom if there is no clear water, clean air, forests and no wildlife? Where then can future generations be free, and whose glory will they sing...
...Novelist Robert Merle's The Day of the Dolphin postulated the preposterous: two dolphins were trained to speak, then used to plant underwater mines off Haiphong to stage a nuclear confrontation with China. But last week the Navy reluctantly admitted that black dolphins, trained at a Navy laboratory in San Diego, had been taken to Viet Nam to be used in a classified mission of surveillance and detection, possibly against enemy frogmen...
...book, Merle fantasizes an interview with a dolphin named...
...allowed to answer the question, but when the dolphin learns that he has been used to kill, he withdraws completely from men, refuses to speak again, and swims away to sea. If it is not careful, the Navy may yet have to send out an all-points bulletin that one or more of their dolphins is missing. Canada or Sweden would doubtless be glad to offer the cheerful creatures haven, as would a good many Americans who share the conviction that man's most intelligent rival on the planet ought to be spared his wars...