Word: whaled
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...Heimert I've a whale to talk to after hours--Together they can nosh on Sherman Holcombe's cauliflowers...
Fred Silverman knew there was something wrong with the whale in his office. "His voice is too high," he finally said to an assistant last week. "Get me a whale with a deeper voice." Then Silverman began auditioning worms...
...football fan who doesn't call a spade a concave instrument for delving or flensing whale blubber knows that the New York Giants and Jets are sleep-walking through the NFL season and show little sign of regaining consciousness...
...Diego, he was quickly tagged a "problem recruit" and assigned to a "motivation" platoon. When he defied orders to participate in a pugil-stick fight (a simulated bayonet drill in which 12-lb. poles padded on both ends are used as weapons), Bronson ordered other recruits to whale away at McClure, even after the 115-lb. youth fell to the ground screaming for mercy. He died in a hospital after doctors removed half of his crushed skull...
...early June they were off Fort Sullivan, which stands at the tail end of a low, sandy, four-mile-long island that is roughly the shape of a sperm whale. It was built to guard the northern entrance to Charles Town Harbor, but its palmetto-wood walls are still incomplete on the shoreward sides, where they stand only 7 feet high. The British would seize the fort and garrison it, Clinton decided, and thus interdict all trade and privateer traffic to and from the busiest port south of Philadelphia...