Word: harpooning
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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...
Stilwell went in person to serve his ultimatum. "I handed this bundle of paprika to the Peanut and then sank back with a sigh. The harpoon hit the little - right in the solar plexus, and went right through him. It was a clean hit, but beyond turning green and losing the power of speech, he did not bat an eye. He just said to me, 'I understand.' And sat in silence, jigging one foot. At least F.D.R.'s eyes have been opened and he has thrown a good hefty punch. I came home. Pretty sight crossing...
...High Harpoon. When a tanker flies alongside a "receiver" (the plane to be refueled), the receiver lets out a slender line that floats behind in a graceful dropping curve. The tanker fires a kind of harpoon-gun, which shoots another line to tangle with the receiver's line. Clawlike devices on the two ends lock together. The receiver hauls in both lines. Next comes a fuel pipe filled with nitrogen gas to minimize danger of explosion. Then comes gasoline, flowing by gravity at 100 gallons a minute. The tanker can supply up to 2,000 gallons...