Word: harpoon
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...belongs to the Catholic Church and has no intention of leaving it." Spiritually German Catholics breathed easier. Politically they were almost forced last week to give up the ghost. Utmost pressure was put on the Catholic Center Party to dissolve. Into their midst "The Doctor" stuck his sharp propaganda harpoon. "If I may be permitted," he sneered, "to give the Centrist party a piece of gratuitous advice it is this: CLOSE YOUR SHOP. There are no more customers coming your way! If we remove the Centrist party from the realm of politics we shall have done the Catholic Church...
...worked five years for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. and who has been inventing things for 18 years. When he managed a chain of clothing stores he got the idea for the pants-presser. While working for Goodyear, he says, he actually landed a blimp by means of a harpoon-anchor like the one which he depicts in his cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross invention, not in production...
Nearby were found three rifles, a harpoon, a boat, two sledges?all part of the emergency equipment of the balloon, of which there was no trace. The corpses' moccasins were severely worn, suggesting a long march over the floes from where the balloon came down. Most precious of all was Andree's diary. Its pages were so fragile that the finders feared to examine it. But one entry was visible? July 18, 1897, just one week after the fated takeoff...
...ports of New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, these vessels are met by the small "killer" boats which bring in the whales. In addition to airplanes, modern "factory" ships use radio telephones, while the small "killers" carry a cannon that shoots a time-fused, explosive, 120-lb. harpoon. Once splashing and spouting in all the seas, whales are now found plentifully only in small areas of the Arctic and Antarctic...
...white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most...