Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western senior who faced a very distinguished professor with distinguished white hair, at his oral examination for honors in English. The professor peered intently at the young man, his voice resonant. "Young man," said he, "could you tell me what you believe to be the significance of the white whale in Moby Dick?" The young man seemed to ponder the question very earnestly and after a few moments he looked up at the professor and replied in a mid-western drawl, "Well, sir, it always struck me that it was just a plain whale...
...lexicon of track and field, weight men are called "whales," and in this Olympic year, Parry O'Brien is the great white whale of the U.S. team-a Moby Dick whom the Russians and the rest of the athletic world would rejoice to master. In competitive terms, he is the epitome of the spirit of single-minded pursuit of perfection idealized in the Olympic creed, a loner who has consecrated his life to the task of tossing a 16-lb. ball of steel farther than anyone-including Parry O'Brien -has tossed it before. He searches for tricks...
...Provincetown he met Tulla, and this was a significant day in the American history of the coffee bean. Tulla, which means "little girl" in Norwegian, had a seafaring grandfather who once ran short on whale cargo near Java, so started carting coffee back to Norway. Tulla's grandmother soon learned how to make quantities of good coffee, as did her daughter and her daughter's daughter, Tulla. "And I was a little girl, once," she laughs when she explains her name. She seems to have a sort of quiet discipline which will insure the shop's cleanliness, and has herself...
Moby Dick. Captain Ahab harrows the oceans in his search for the great white whale; with Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles (TIME, July...
...elephant and so has a whale...