Word: whaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Whales are gentle, playful creatures with enormous brains and extraordinary hearing. According to Cetologist Roger S. Payne of the New York Zoological Society, whales communicate with one another by "singing" at deep submarine frequencies, sounding like sitar concertos. Other scientists are trying to discover how whales can dive to 7,000 ft., where the pressure would compress a human lungful of air to a thin fluid, and then resurface with no ill effects. But for all their mystery, whales have interested men mainly because they have oil within their hulks. In the past decade alone, 607,000 have been slaughtered...
Conservationists look to the 14-nation* International Whaling Commission to regulate the $150 million industry and reduce the slaughter. But last week, after a long conference in London, the agency issued a communiqué that drowned all hopes. Instead of lowering the limits on each year's whale kill, the commission decided to maintain the already absurdly high quotas...
STRATFORD, Conn.-It would be folly to claim that The Devil's Disciple is one of Bernard Shaw's best plays, but he had a whale of a lot of fun writing it. A cast can have a great deal of fun playing it-as the Stratfordians are obviously doing this summer. And an audience can have a great deal of fun watching...
...song of the whale, however, is far more complex than that of most birds, lasting anywhere from six to 30 minutes...
Hitched tightly together, the two rockets look like a mother whale uncomfortably carrying its huge baby on its back. After they lift off from the pad, their configuration becomes even more extraordinary. At an altitude of 44 miles the mother ship unleashes its offspring; then, guided by a two-man crew, it dives back toward earth, using auxiliary jet engines and stubby, finlike wings to touch down like an ordinary aircraft. The smaller rocket ship continues to soar until it reaches a "parking" orbit about 115 miles high. After a single swing around the earth, it resumes its climb, gingerly...