Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whale to Seagull, Over...
...Nobody could have been more dismayed than Captain Pollard when he headed back to his stricken ship. "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" he cried. And from Mate Chase, bobbing with other survivors in a small boat, came the laconic answer: "We have been stove by a whale...
Around the Horn. The Massachusetts mainlanders who settled Nantucket in the late 1600s, Stackpole believes, had little other choice of occupation. Their small island was hardly suitable for much farming, whereas whale oil could be a rich cash crop...
...event gave Herman Melville the idea for the last chapter of Moby Dick, in which the White Whale sinks Captain Ahab's ship. Melville paraphrased Captain Pollard's question as: "The ship? Great God, where is the ship...
...which they dug to the middle of a room. Upon their return last summer, they continued digging and found that the room was part of a five room house. The Eskimos, research revealed, lived in semi-subterranean houses, with sod block walls erected around frames of drift wood and whale bones. This form of building is unique at barrow, for most other Eskimo dwellings are single room houses of smaller size...