Word: barrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like crowds in other museums: they're unselfish and patient. People crowd around the clippings, but they wait their turn. The newspapers have big pictures of the dead bodies, the bullet-riddled car, the crowds looking at the car and the bodies. The story describes it this way: "Both Barrow and the woman were instantly killed; Barrow being shot through the left temple and through the left shoulder. The Parker woman was shot through the mouth, her teeth being knocked out through the neck, and the fingers of her right hand were shot off." Around the corner is the original...
...Manhattan and its escort cut gingerly from Resolute into the Barrow Strait, radar operators spotted a blip on their screens. The interloper, probably a rubbernecking Soviet submarine, remained faithful through the passage. Beyond the strait, the Manhattan faced the most dangerous leg of the journey -Viscount Melville Sound and, finally, ice-choked McClure Strait. An elaborate scouting system went into action. A Canadian DC-4 survey plane, with a special ice-scanning dome, surveyed the 1,100-mile passage. Photographs were taken of the route just ahead and dropped to the Manhattan for study. Two helicopters, based on the ship...
Since starting out in their four dog sleds last February 21st, they have actually encountered a scarcity of large animal life despite abundant tracks. Yet after Freddy Church, the Expedition's communications middle man at Barrow, relayed one of the rare sightings of a few seals to England, The Times of London assumed that the Expedition had practically proven Stefansson's theory. The Times just happens to be one of the financial backers of this $150,000 effort...
Church simply broadcasts his message on a 1,000 watt transmitter near Barrow and Herbert acknowledges by tapping out the letter "R" for a few minutes on the one field radio that still operates. Every once in a while, a few of Herbert's weak signals, the only contact between these four men and the rest of the world, penetrates the radio noise...
Scheduling the Expedition's supply runs has also proven difficult. An old R-4D Dakota, operating out of Barrow, flew the first three airdrops and actually made two landings out on the ice, but beyond a certain point in the sled journey, the R-4D couldn't make the flight without a refueling stop at T-3, pretty much an impossibility now that the runway has melted...