Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no way to stop him. Last week one of the highest-ranking New Dealers told TIME that there is no longer any doubt: the President will have things neatly and exactly arranged for a fourth term nomination, will be nominated and reelected. This New Dealer foresaw a whale of a fight, but certain victory...
...fish now thrown back into the sea or ground into fertilizer, the Government is publishing Wartime Fish Cookery. It contains recipes for shark steak, skate chowder, the plentiful but oily menhaden, the humble but edible alewife, the delicious ocean pout, of which Massachusetts fisheries have recently sold huge quantities. Whale meat (red but fishy) was sold in Boston during the last...
...high-minded, non-slicing WPBers it was just a routine order: no more sliced bread for the duration, a consequent yearly saving of 100 tons of slicing-machine alloy steel. But to U.S. housewives it was almost as bad as gas rationing-and a whale of a lot more trouble. They vainly searched for grandmother's serrated bread knife, routed sleepy husbands out of bed, held dawn conferences over bakery handouts which read like a golf lesson: "Keep your head down. Keep your eye on the loaf. And don't bear down." Then came grief, cussing, lopsided slices...
...October off Guadalcanal. The Jap cruiser wheeled and turned like a crazed whale. On the pursuing U.S. destroyer Duncan nimble fingers adjusted a torpedo director, sent a tin fish on its way. Smoke and water geysered up. The Jap shuddered, rotted over, started towards the bottom...
...Adaptive Mechanism, The Phenomena of Life. He studied the organs of man and of animals from snails to race horses in his search for the secret of living energy. Many of the animals he collected himself on hunting trips, from Hudson Bay (where he bagged a white whale) to Africa (where, when he was 72, he bagged a seven-ton elephant). Each animal was promptly dissected, its "energy-controlling organs"-heart, thyroid, brain, adrenals-measured and' examined on the spot...