Word: harpooner
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Then, a calm silence settled over the tundra. The rabid polar bear lay peacefully, harpoon through the throat, its guts coloring the bland snow. Justin kneeled, motionless. Kamik rubbed his arm violently in the snow, wailing in his native Eskimo dialect...
...that opponents harbored elitist feelings. Councilor Sullivan says opponents "didn't want the library. Period." Crane agrees, saying that even though Pei revised his plans twice to accommodate residents' fears--and appeared at public meetings on the proposal--"a very small handful of well-organized people put the harpoon into the library...
...packed with 100 tons of cement, the 789-ton Shepherd bore down on the lighter Sierra and struck a glancing blow. Explained Watson: "I tried to take off the harpoon." Then, after making a 360° turn, the avenging trawler opened up to twelve knots and hit again, this time punching a gaping hole amidships. Taking on water, Sierra limped into port, and, according to Watson, should be out of action for months, if not permanently. Watson's own ship suffered nothing more than a battered...
...protesters. Finally, after two misses, the captain got off his shot when one fin surfaced directly in front of the catch boat. It was a painfully slow demise for the beast; to minimize the danger to the protesters, Eythorsson had removed the explosive cap from the harpoon. Cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof of the grisly action: "The creature's struggle was unusually harrowing. Without the explosive, the fin lingered on until the captain fired a second 'cold' harpoon into it and then, at last, an explosive harpoon. It took 16 minutes to end the whale...
...suggestion, with one loophole: Eskimos in Alaska would be allowed to maintain subsistence hunting of the endangered bowhead whale under strict quotas (last year's ceiling: 18 kills). If the conference fails to act on the U.S. proposal or a similar one, Congress may toss out a legislative harpoon of its own: a bill sponsored by Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington and Bob Packwood of Oregon would deny U.S. fishing rights within a 200-mile coastal limit to any countries that ignore IWC rulings. Such legislation would strongly bolster any moratorium passed by the IWC, which has no enforcement...