Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of these are unconscious--for example, the boy who wrote of Moby Dick that "Ahab met his death at the hands of the whale," On orals especially, unwariness can be deadly. On an American History oral, someone gave the date for the transcontinental railroad as 1840. "Why did the Forty-Niners go around the Horn?" he was asked...
...Guaranty is ninth, with deposits of $2.5 billion. The merger, said Morgan Board Chairman Henry Clay Alexander, 56, will enable both banks "to serve our clients' increasing needs and our country's growth even better." The merger was characterized in Wall Street as "Jonah swallowing the whale," since Alexander will be chairman and chief executive officer of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co of New York; Guaranty President Dale E. Sharp, 55, becomes president...
...whole cross-country season was geared toward one meet and we lost that one," McCurdy said, referring to Yale's 27-28 victory, "so I don't know what to say. It was a whale of a competitive effort, but we didn't quite pull...
Convention Hall roars to the Democratic war song. Red-eyed delegates sing, shout, weep, laugh, wring hands, whale backs and jostle one another in the aisles. Spotlights swing dizzily around the vast room; the convention floor is a riotous sea of waving signs. BANG! BANG! BANG! Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn thumps endlessly for order: "The sergeant at arms will clear the aisles." Finally, a hush falls. Rayburn smiles for the first time in precisely four years. "Members of the convention!" cries he. "It is my great pleasure to give you the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...also reflected changes at the University. Straight Yankee cookery, solid meat and potatoes, have given way to "reversion to oddities": food of an "international tinge," as Cronin somewhat equivocally puts it. When oddities are brought from the kitchen, Cronin does not always know about them. Neat tenderloins of whale steak are lovingly brought in from the ocean, but Jim waxes unfelicitous when black-listed "oysters of turkey" find their way to the platters...