Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governments all over Europe. Stupid! First of all Russia needed peace-to bind up its wounds, to organize its resources into an impregnable, unconquerable socialist state. First of all Russia needed freedom from the fear of invasion, a cordon sanitaire, in reverse, on its western, frontiers. Henceforth, from the Arctic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea, there must be a chain of governments friendly to Russia...
...Helmericks soon found that the surly Yukon was no highway of ro mance. It carried "the silt of half a continent," and floating forests of trees and driftwood were a daily threat to the frail Queen Beaver. Arctic breezes whipped up icy waves that drenched the honeymooners to their skins. When they spent the night on a river island their down-lined sleeping bags were soon sodden with stagnant water...
...soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber in the mining camp of Platinum, near the Arctic Circle. He went to Molokai and wrote about the lepers. He flew around South America. And for most of the five years he worried...
...Finland tied up there as long as possible, to stave them off their own necks at Narva. They were desperately anxious to keep the Russians away from Petsamo and its nickel mines, away from the Petsamo air base from which German planes sniped at Allied shipping in the Arctic...
...paradoctors attached to the Search and Rescue Section of the Second Air Force. Together with six others whom the Second Air Force trained at Buckley Field, Colo. for Arctic search and rescue work, they are the only specially trained parachuting doctors in the U.S. armed forces. The Arctic paradoctors have already left the U.S. Since January, the remaining six, stationed at widely separated bases west of the Mississippi, have rescued 79 men-a good return for the $30,000 spent on their training and the $2,000 spent to equip each paradoctor...