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...Hubbs catches faster fish, some of them as deep as 9,000 ft. "Every time we send the net down," says Hubbs, "we come up with something never before seen on this coast: fish with telescopic eyes, long fanglike teeth, dragonlike appearance." One fish caught has a long ratlike tail. Another, the black swallower, has an extensible stomach, convenient for heavy, infrequent meals. It can swallow a victim three times as big as itself. Another fish has a well-defined neck. Another has a huge lower jaw, a hundred times the size of the rest of its head, which...
...back to the airfield for a briefcase, it took the messenger 90 minutes to break his way through the Communist guards. That night, when Joy and his fellow delegates got back to Munsan, the admiral looked worn and tired, was so preoccupied that he almost walked into the whirring tail rotor of his helicopter...
...most appallingly lonely spots a man could imagine. He soon gave up hope, but found that he could not give up trying: "It's hard to drown when you know how to swim." That first day, sharks pestered him. He killed one: "I grabbed his tail, flipped him over and ripped up the belly with my knife." He had plenty of time to think. "I thought about how I was messing up the race for a lot of people. I thought about the time I had wasted in my life." At sunrise the next morning, the sharks came back...
mighty sperm whale That when boldly attacked in his lair With one sweep of his mighty and ponderous tail...
Long Glide Home. Cut loose from the bomber, Bridgeman switched on his rocket motors, climbed quickly to the test altitude (about 12 miles). Then he pushed over into level flight. The tiny (25-ft. spread), sharply swept wings, the sleek fuselage that carries its rakish tail surfaces high above the wing wake, met little resistance from the rarefied atmosphere. For three thundering minutes the Skyrocket boomed along. Before its rocket fuel ran dry it was probably screaming through empty upper air at 1,500 m.p.h. or more. Power gone, it glided in lazy spirals back to its base at Muroc...