Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fairbanks News-Miner frontpaged a picture of a pair of hands with fingers crossed (for the bill needs Senate approval). In Fairbanks' Elks Club, scores of Alaskans tied on a wingding of a binge. At bars and soda fountains, drinks were on the house. Said a Unalakleet-born Eskimo named Oliver Amouak: "It's a good thing. I like to see it come on fine. I will enjoy my first vote for President...
...said Arctic Explorer Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen. who never understood what a man wanted with the steam-heated creature comforts of civilization. Yet in civilization or out. inferior was hardly the word for Freuchen. who managed to fashion successful careers as newspaperman, lecturer, travel writer and novelist (Eskimo ). During World War II, the vigorous Dane found time to fight in his country's anti-Nazi underground. Last summer he became a familiar figure across the U.S. as the fifth contestant to hit the jackpot on television's The $64,000 Question.* Later, at the start of one more...
...identifying such familiar arctic objects as a walrus tooth and a harpoon head, a task Freuchen found far simpler than naming his half-Eskimo children: Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk and Piplauk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager...
...fights with Grandpa Kennedy for the mind of beautiful Christine. In Author Ferber's hands, the battle is unequal. Not only does Christine refuse to marry the rich man's son Kennedy has in mind for her, but it is also reasonably clear that a part-Eskimo pilot, one Ross Guildenstern, will blend his dark good looks with Chris's golden beauty to help produce a better Alaska. On the way to an unexceptional ending, Author Ferber generously shares with the reader all her newfound, often interesting Alaskan lore-and when she raises her voice, it sounds...
...Hemisphere, leader of a four-man scientific expedition encamped (at 8,000 ft.) since April on McCall Glacier in Alaska's Brooks Range; apparently by his own hand (stripped to the waist, he walked some 200 yd. from camp, lay down in zero weather, froze in time-honored Eskimo-suicide fashion...