Word: blubbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consumption." A scholar who would be concerned about U.S. educational standards if Russia were inhabited solely by musk oxen, Gould does not hesitate to point with alarm at the Red satellites long after the furor has ceased to be fashionable. Typically, he orates: "We are like penguins wrapped in blubber. We have wrapped ourselves in such a layer of luxury we are virtually impervious to what goes on in the world around us. We may be unable to wake up in time to meet the crisis that Sputnik graphically posed...
...hero's bubble of prosperity bursts. He fails to receive an invitation to an important executive luncheon, at which the management intends to separate the sheep from the goats, and he concludes that his career has gone from baa to worse. At home he tries manfully not to blubber ("They don't want me any more"), and his wife takes dismal, comical inventory of the monthly payments they must meet. "Well, there's the new hot-water heater . . . the garbage-disposal unit, the washer and dryer, the TV and the hifi, the new divan and those silly...
...frying pans contents were now unloaded onto my plate. There being no salt or pepper, I commenced to eat. After struggling with amazing incapacity for ten minutes with my pair of wooden chop sticks, I capitulated to a fork. The Chicken blubber tasted just like chicken blubber, and the herbs like marinated spinach. I asked my friend about the shredded celophane...
...Blubber & Blabber. Langley was duly elected, and soon confided to Elkins-testified Elkins-that he was going to split the gambling payoff with Gambler Maloney. But Maloney turned out to be a first-class bungler and, said Elkins, the Teamsters sent in another man to help with the Portland racketeering. He was Seattle Gambler Joseph Patrick McLaughlin, alias Joe McKinley. The difference between Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin was explained to Elkins by none other than the Teamsters' Frank Brewster. Testified Elkins: Brewster once said that " 'Tom Maloney is a blubberheaded, blabbermouthed...
...with His Head. Drawn up the gaping skidway by steel cables thrumming on giant steam-driven winches, the whale reached the broad afterdeck. A gang of workmen, wielding long-handled flensing knives, sliced off the thick blubber in foot-wide strips. The winches whined again and dragged the naked, bloody carcass 50 ft. farther along the slimy, slippery, half-iced deck to stage two. Here another flensing gang sliced off the meat. A neat, well-directed blow, as from an executioner's ax, severed the backbone at the neck, and the gigantic head (20 ft. long in an average...