Word: tailspinning
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Philbrick avoids moralizing, but his story has a Melvillean coda. Nantucket's pious Quakers never discussed their kinfolks' cannibalism publicly. Pollard wrecked his second ship and wound up a night watchman. With increasing competition and the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, Nantucket's whaling industry went into a tailspin, and the heirs to old families like the Macys, Coffins and Folgers went off-island to seek their fortunes. Score one for the whales...
...grass" that once covered 4,500 sq. mi. (11,700 sq km) in Florida. Having spent much of this century channeling, damming and diverting Everglades water for urban and agricultural use, state and federal politicians have watched with growing alarm as these alterations threw the ecosystem into a tailspin. Wading-bird populations have plummeted; sport and commercial fish catches have fallen; 68 of the Everglades' resident species, including the manatee and the panther, have become endangered; and the capacity of the system to store water has shrunk even as human demand for it grows...
...start of last week, the men's volleyball team was in a tailspin. The Crimson had lost three straight games to EIVA opponents and was in danger of squandering a promising season...
Ultimately, the series could be decided on special teams. Harvard's power play has just been in a tailspin, going 4 for its last 44. Out of desperation, Mazzoleni has turned the man-advantage over to his assistants, which has produced better puck movement but still no tangible production. Harvard looks to return to basics this weekend...
...second consecutive weekend against RPI was not exactly an appealing option either. After emerging from its five-game tailspin with a sweep over Brown and Harvard, it's almost certain that RPI will advance to the semi-finals at Lake Placid without a hitch...