Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural cacophony. Antisubmarine-warfare hands are trained to differentiate the sound of a sub from that of a destroyer or a rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives are the pings, for all the world like those from...
...unfettered fancy of Jules Verne never conjured up such a monstrous metallic whale. Verne's fictional Naiitilus, 232 ft. long, could have nestled snugly in the belly of Triton, the eighth nuclear-powered submarine to join the U.S. fleet, scheduled for launching this week in the Thames River at Groton, Conn...
...protoplasm, and inside the nucleus reside the powerful chromosomes, which most geneticists believe are like a chemical oligarchy controlling the activities of a chemical nation. If the cell is a fertilized egg, the chromosomes possess all the information needed to build the cell into a bug or a whale...
...said Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy one afternoon last week from his outpost in the Senate's rear row, "is little more than a pious admonition of concern." Added Illinois' fatigued and visibly angry Paul Douglas: "The Committee on Finance reported a papier-mâché whale." But Democrats Kennedy and Douglas stood virtually alone as they chided the Senate for its low-pressure approach to a watered-down bill for extending unemployment compensation. The bill had already been passed by the House (TIME, May 12) and approved without a comma's change by Harry Flood...
...much of the show is shot in the huge tanks of the world's biggest aquarium. California's Marineland of the Pacific at Palos Verdes. Even in the tanks, filming Sea Hunt is risky. Bubbles, Marineland's 1,800-lb. pilot whale cow, once pinned astonished Chief Cameraman Lamar (The Old Man and the Sea) Boren against a tank window out of crushing affection. Actor Bridges, a muscular, sandy-haired man of 45, yearns to ride Bubbles, but Tors vetoes the idea: "All Bubbles has to do is to flip her tail and I lose my leading...