Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shorter by 50 feet than the lean, 310-foot fleet "boats" of World War II, the new Tang-class subs looked like a cross between a whale and a shark. Gone was the familiar deck gun and the round conning tower, with its crest of periscopes, radar and radio masts. The decks of the new subs were clean and knife-narrow. Down the center reared a thick, sliced-off fin to house their twelve masts and the snorkel, which will enable them to run on engines instead of batteries at periscope depth. They had bow planes that whipped out automatically...
Wilder interpreted the white whale as a symbol of God. Such a symbol illustrates the book's abstractness, Wilder claimed, because it detracts from the conventional father image. "There is a limit to which we can consider ourselves sons and daughters of a whale," he pointed...
...poor shape because of overexpansion, but by cutting down and changing the management, the new owner soon had it on its feet. From then on, Schott's investment company began picking up companies and real estate. In ten years he gathered up more than 18 new businesses, including Whale Harbor Spa (a Florida fishing resort), Columbia Axle Co., U.S. Air Compressor Co., Stratbury Manufacturing Co. (overcoats), Farm Tools...
...laborers were brought into Illinois from the East and from Europe. The crews brawled incessantly because of the "numerous groggeries along the line." They were plagued by cholera. But finally, on Jan. 8, 1855, the first through passenger train from Cairo reached Chicago, its coaches lit by dim whale-oil lamps. Along its right of way, flourishing villages sprang up. Soon the Central linked up with Mississippi steamboats, opened trade to the Gulf...
...This whale of a story was not quite enough for Calcutta-born John Masters, 36, a wartime brigadier with Wingate in Burma, who has tackled the subject in a first novel. Faithfully following a popular formula (the book is a Literary Guild choice), Masters has lugged in such sideshows as tiger hunts, cholera epidemics and sweaty sessions between Hero Savage and a nubile native queen. ("Her bare thighs were warm, and her hands were on him...'I did wrong...but go on, go on. I love you.' ") Rodney Savage is a man of good will...