Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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W.W.C. said that Senator Vandenberg, who will be one of the U.S. delegates to the San Francisco Conference, wants the U.S. to boss the world: he wants the kind of unity "which Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale...
...Corps history, is worthy, or almost worthy, to rank with such great war records as With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20, 1944). Shot chiefly on a terrain as shapeless as an ash-heap, as mortally featureless and cryptic as the flank of Captain Ahab's White Whale in their ultimate engagement, it lacks the relative coherence and clarity of most of its predecessors. It demonstrates, in fact, more clearly than any previous film, that war in its crucial essence is neither dramatic nor even particularly human, but paroxysmic: that it is simply hell on earth...
...furnace of these sometimes fumbled campaigns the Navy had forged a powerful weapon. To its fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...
...back and say, 'Be a man.' No one who wished to dissuade a crocodile from eating his tenth explorer would slap it on the back and say, 'Be a crocodile.' For we have no notion of a perfect crocodile; no allegory of a whale expelled from his Whaley Eden...
...Whale's Tale. In Weekapaug, R.I., a dead whale drifted ashore. After calling the Coast Guard (but the whale did not interfere with navigation), the Army (but the whale was not an invasion), town fathers classed the carcass as refuse, called their garbage collector...