Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toyota and drove from Denver to Boulder, where practice ice has been made available. She is supposed to be on a sabbatical from Stanford but could not resist several courses last semester at the University of Colorado. "I'm used to a suicidal load, calculus, chemistry and stuff -- I whale on it. I took German here just for fun, and I've had a blast." Of course, her study of German is not entirely ! idle. "I want to speak a little of it to Katarina. She's all right, I like her. I can't exactly say we're friends...
...house's cachet "made it an honor to take less money." Doing business the old-fashioned way has long-term rewards as well. "Sometimes a writer ahead of his time has to be nursed along," says Giroux. "Remember, Moby Dick was a flop in the 19th century -- too much whale...
Measuring 353 ft. from stem to stern and a potbellied 40 ft. across at the waist, the U.S. Navy's proposed SSN-21 Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine looks more like a whale with a weight problem than a swift and silent undersea marauder. Yet when the first of a projected 30 Seawolfs sets to sea in 1995, her proponents hope she will live up to her name by proving to be a deadly hunter-killer beneath the waves. "The Seawolf," says the Navy's top submariner, Vice Admiral Bruce DeMars, "will be the supersub of the 21st century...
Meet an amiable whale named John Madden, who mints money with his wham- bam football commentary and a slew of TV commercials...
...still suffering from the indignity of falling to Dartmouth, 2-1, the previous night. Maybe the rink operator forgot to turn the thermostat up to its usual 150 degrees. Whatever the reason, the Elis plodded and the Crimson soared to a 7-2 victory, its first at The Whale in 10 years...