Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California gray whale today became the first marine animal to be removed from the endangered species list. The gray beauties have been on the "protected" roster since 1967, but recent surveys estimate they now number 21,000 -- about equal to their population before the whalers nearly wiped them out. Though the gray whales' comeback has been declared a success by the government, some environmentalists worry that the move is premature and will send the wrong message to whale-hunting nations such as Norway and Japan...
Harvard came away from the Yale Whale with a12-1 win--its first victory in New Haven in manyyears--but the most impressive stat of the nightwas that the Bulldogs could muster only 11 shotson goal for the entire game...
...once called the great white whale of physics. The longer the "top" quark managed to elude capture, the more obsessed its pursuers became with the importance of hunting it down. For in the subatomic world, the top was, scientists believed, the sixth and last of the quarks -- pointlike particles that constitute the basic building blocks of matter. As the years passed, failure to find the top became a source of consternation and potential embarrassment to the theorists who swore it must exist...
...locals) take to a 26-mile, 385-yard course from Hopkinton to the Boston Public Library and think about nothing but sex and water for two to five hours, while the rest of us cheer them on and feel about as good about our own physical conditions as whale caca on the bottom of the Dead Sea. Neil is going to be one of the twenty or thirty Harvard students joining the active masses tomorrow, and he is feeling the full force of our resentment...
Harvard Commencement and Class Day speakers have had their problems. Shevardnadze was a socialist, Brundtland was a whale-killer, and Powell was seen as anti-gay. All, on the other hand, had redeeming qualities that made them worth honoring with speaking roles at Commencement...