Word: harpooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy ones, but one day a wounded whale charged his dory and sent him swimming for his life through a sea full of sharks. Another time, his broken boat was kept afloat like a surfboard as the whale dragged it along at top speed at the end of a harpoon line. On a third occasion, young Harry was bounced overboard into a school of whales, which amused themselves by playing a none-too-gentle form of soccer with Harry as the ball...
Then Halley threw another harpoon. Innocently, he asked Costello if he had ever paid anybody to check his telephone for wire tapping. "Absolutely not," said Costello...
...Engine? Once a whale shark larger than the raft itself came alongside, but it gave no trouble, not even when Hesselberg begged for it by plaguing the visitor with a harpoon. As for mere sharks, they worried no one: it became sport to haul them aboard by the tail with the bare hand. The Kon-Tiki's food kept well, stored below the deck in asphalt-coated containers, and seafood was a glut in the galley. Flying fish, good eating, practically flung themselves at the frying...
...Australia and Africa there are spiders that catch their victims by a sort of combination lasso and harpoon. They attach a drop of sticky gum to a length of silky thread, and whirl this apparatus around their heads. When something edible approaches, the spider slings the globule. If it hits, it sticks, and the spider reels in the victim-playing it, if necessary, as a human angler does a fish...