Word: capes
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...Corps who had proved his endurance and skill during service in the American West, headed south in a steam launch and three smaller boats. The launch got wedged in the ice, two of the boats were abandoned, and the desperate men barely made it across the ice pack to Cape Sabine as winter and the polar night descended. In the minds of all were the fates of two previous expeditions-those of U.S. Lieut. Commander George De Long and Britain's Sir John Franklin, which ended with the loss of both leaders and more than...
Lost Fingers. By the spring of 1884, the men of Cape Sabine were reduced to eating lichens, sealskin thongs and their own boots. The first to go were the very weak and the very strong. The weak simply gave up; the strong overtaxed themselves in trying to save all. One man was brought back from a hunt with his eyelids frozen tight; he was so badly frostbitten that his fingers and feet fell off. Dependable Canadian-born Sergeant George Rice died of exhaustion in a three-day blizzard...
...expenditure." On April 24, 1884, a rescue flotilla finally set out under Commander Winfield Scott Schley, who, 14 years later, was to destroy the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Santiago. After a two-month voyage and a search of the coves and inlets of Baffin Bay, Schley reached Cape Sabine. Only Greely and six others, out of 25, remained alive. In memorable understatement, an emaciated survivor said: "A hard winter, sir-a very hard winter...
...booster on the pad at Cape Canaveral was a Redstone, a militarily obsolete but reliable Army rocket. Perched on its nose was a Mercury space capsule, designed to carry a man into orbit and bring him back alive. The capsule was standard size, but its interior had been tailored for a chimp and supplied with special gear and fittings for its non-human passenger...
Precision or Abstraction. In his one-sitting paintings, mostly landscapes and seascapes done on Cape Cod, Dickinson is especially versatile at catching the highlights of a moment. He can do a cottage window that is both precise and geometrical, yet seems about to reveal some intriguing mystery. A seascape may be romantic and bathed in mist, while a painting of waves crashing upon some rocks can recede into abstraction. But Dickinson has still another side to him: oils that are pure dramatic invention. Such a work is his Ruin at Daphne...