Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olympics, was not in the run, but Jimmy McLane was, and so was Ohio State's wiry Hawaiian star, Ford Konno, one of the world's best free-style swimmers. Splashing immediately into the lead, Yale's Moore cut the water like a hungry shark. At the 100-meter mark he led Yale Teammate McLane by two feet, at the 200-meter mark by four, at the 300-meter mark...
...fisherman was not having his leg pulled, as he huffily assumed. Gavin Maxwell, the young man in the sweater, was not a fisher of trout but of basking sharks-creatures "as large as a London bus," that roam the bays and lochs of western Scotland. Harpoon Venture, Maxwell's account of four years of shark-shooting, is a natural for vacation reading. But it also has a secondary theme that many people will find more interesting than the main...
...Dear Boy." Maxwell knew nothing whatever about the basking shark. He fired more than 300 light machine-gun bullets into its hide-without apparent effect. Intrigued by such a doughty creature, Maxwell began to bone up on it. He found that though the basking shark's liver is known to contain hundreds of pounds of valuable oil, no one had much else to say about the great fish. Here, in short, was a veteran's dream, "an unexplored field, an amazing blank upon the . . . map of the world's natural history...
Maxwell sank the rest of his capital into building a shark factory on his island and buying war-surplus navy boats, gear and harpoons. Interested friends subscribed more money. He collected a crew consisting partly of local fishermen, partly of hard-boiled seadogs, whose language often depended solely upon "all the monosyllables . . . used in turn, as nouns, adjectives and adverbs." Would-be adventurers clamored to join the project; their letters often told an old familiar story...
...Hollywood by merely scratching its back. Infected with a bad case of producer worship, or Thalberg Syndrome, The Beach House implies that its hero is a mute, inglorious Milton gagged by a lack of cash and artistic credit. But as Novelist Longstreet portrays him, he seems more like a shark whose teeth have gone...