Word: arctically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arctic Joe: Restic said he did not feel the cold until he left the Bowl at game's end. Then it hit him. By Joe, it was cold...
PLAYING on a frozen tundra in the middle of the noted arctic wasteland of New Haven, the Harvard football team this Saturday turned in a performance which did its university proud. Battling the evil Eli for the 104th time, with the Ivy title on the line for only the fourth, the Crimson warriors came away with a 14-10 victory. Led by junior halfback Tony Hinz, who scored both Harvard touchdowns, and a fearsome defensive front seven, the Crimson--picked by most pre-season pundits to finish near the bottom of the Ancient Eight--captured its first Ivy crown since...
Adrift in his native city of Leningrad in 1969, the young poet had good reason to feel depressed. He had spent 18 months laboring on a state farm in the Arctic, convicted by a Soviet court of being a "social parasite." Released but still convinced that his mission on earth was to write rather than surrender his skills to the dictates of the state, he faced bleak prospects: the official campaign to discredit him had taken on undertones of anti- Semitism, and his work was being subjected to the annihilating silence of suppression. So he composed...
...barely clearing the hills above the Pacific port of Vladivostok, less than 40 miles from China. At the same moment, on the Bering Strait across from Alaska, the easternmost edge of the Soviet world is well on the way to an Arctic noon. And in Moscow, ten time zones to the west over an endless expanse of tundra, forests and inland seas, it is half past midnight, and yesterday has just ended. Not for eight hours will the commuters to the left head for their jobs in the capital from suburban Zagorsk. In the Soviet Union, more than anywhere else...
What sort of day was May 15? In Moscow it began with an overcast sky that brightened briefly before being darkened by thunderclouds. In the Arctic Ocean, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Sibir was cruising toward the scientific station North Pole 27. In Central Asia scientists secretly tested the 170 million-h.p. Energia booster rocket, the world's most powerful. Through the day, photographers scoured areas once strictly off limits. Some places remained out-of-bounds: military academies were accessible; most military installations were...