Word: tusks
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...TIME'S covers during the next several years were a jumping horse, a champion pointer, the sea elephant Goliath II ("insanely popeyed, ponderously oozy, hideously fierce of tusk and whisker"), the race horse Cavalcade and four Derby horses on one cover...
...grandfather told me that [they] were made [from] the tusk of a sea lion...
Next day, as the overloaded Tusk slid into the harbor of Hammerfest, Norway, almost all of the town's tough, seawise population was waiting on its fishing wharves to salute a feat of courage and seamanship...
...pulled to safety aboard the rescue vessel; then a toppling comber roared in and swept twelve men off the Tusk's slippery deck. Shipmates lashed ropes around their waists, leaped into the swirling water between the two subs; they got only six-back to the perilous refuge of the vessel's streaming deckplates. The other six simply vanished in the tumultuous waves and were never found...
...explosions shook the Cochino. The Tusk's skipper, Commander Robert Worthington of Oakmont, Pa., brought her alongside; as the two subs tumbled and crashed and wallowed, a narrow gangway was pushed across from deck to deck. One by one, eyeing the seas v.ith desperate concentration, the Cochino's men came leaping across...