Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
Last week, as the Skipper drove toward Chapel Beach, the Venture swept in its herd, and the small boats closed around more than 150 thrashing whales. Young men and old-like Isaac Higdon, 75, and Bob Newhook, a pothead killer since 1918 -beat empty oil drums and shouted at the top of their voices. The best boatmen in Newfoundland danced their craft among the whales and the long spiked lances stabbed out, turning the frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water...
...pilot whale, sometimes called blackfish, which averages eight to ten feet in length (some have measured 24 feet and weighed as much as five tons...
...suffer fell upon him. The vainglorious Charles Lee led a shameful retreat at Monmouth, and after being court-martialed, he slandered Washington up & down the states. Congress fretted and fumbled; its appropriations, snapped Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene, were "no more equal to our wants than a sprat in a whale's belly." The encampment at Morristown during the winter of 1779-80 was far worse, by Freeman's measure, than the winter at Valley Forge two years earlier...
...strange experiment started in 1917, in Boston, when Dr. Paul Dudley White bought a preserved whale heart from an old sea captain. Like other heart specialists, Dr. White had learned to doubt some of his own diagnoses. Symptoms of disease in smaller human hearts, he suspected, might well be signs of health in larger, slow-beating organs. To test his theories, Dr. White began to study the hearts of mammals larger than man. As medical examiner for Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, he dissected the heart of a dead elephant. Later, he took electrocardiograms of docile circus elephants...